Taxonomic diversity refers to the number and the relative abundance of species in a community. Functional diversity refers to the different types of processes in a community that are important to its structure and dynamic stability. Taxonomic and functional diversity have been presented as being ...
and leaf litter from native grassland to mature plantations were the major drivers of the decreasing taxonomic and functional diversity of plants. To our knowledge, this is the first time to simultaneously compare plant taxonomic and functional diversities and their relationship with environmental variable...
sub-humid, semi-arid), age category (young, adult, old), gender (male, female), education level (not educated, basic education, secondary and plus), and management regime of HG (single versus multiple) on the occurrence of each functional type of HG....
High-throughput sequencing (HTS) studies of fungal communities are redrawing the map of the fungal kingdom by hinting at its enormous — and largely uncharted — taxonomic and functional diversity. However, HTS approaches come with a range of pitfalls and potential biases, cautioning against unwary...
Because of inconsistencies across studies in reporting the taxonomic identity of herbivores, we grouped herbivores into functional groups based on [5] (Table S4.4 in Additional file4): F1 are herbivores associated with limnic-habitats, migrating outside the Arctic for winter, with undifferentiated gut...
Given the significant taxonomic and functional differences between the bladder and gut genomes in asymptomatic individuals, we next sought to evaluate whether isolates of the same species differed in these 2 niches. As the gut is generally considered to be the source of uropathogenicEscherichia coli(...
The role of evolutionary processes in producing biodiversity patterns, and the interrelationships between taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity Patterns of biodiversity are ultimately the product of speciation and extinction. Speciation serves as the biodiversity pump while extinction serves as the...
Management strategies that promote the conservation of heterogeneous landscapes (i.e. a higher proportion of semi-natural habitats) and organic farm management practices are important for maintaining plant phylogenetic, functional and taxonomic diversity in agroecosystems. Accommodating various forms of ...
with consistent representation across taxonomic orders. The resulting models were then used to generate trait estimates for 52,255 tree species, capturing approximately 80% of documented tree species91. Using this trait database, we were able to assign trait value to 81% of the tree species in ...
“Xenobiotics biodegradation and metabolism” of FunGp1, which were depleted upon dilution, although a small proportions of these genes were not. The influence of taxonomic diversity decline on the functional genes with increasing dilution may be explained by the lack of taxonomic redundancy for these...