Using species richness (157 species: 36 amphibians and 121 reptiles) for the state of Durango, we found that the amphibian communities present in pine forest and pine-oak forest showed high values of taxonomic diversity (high Delta+values), meaning that the communities in these vegetation types ...
000 described species for which there are no data in GenBank are about eighteen to one, based on the estimate of 1.5million extant fungal species byHawksworth (2001), or at least forty-four to one, based on the diversity estimates ofO’Brienet al.(2005)(these odds are also based o...
We calculated three diversity metrics for the predicted community of Odonata occurring within a cell of each raster map. We first stacked SDM projection for all the analysed species. We estimated taxonomic diversity as the number of species predicted to occur in each cell. We calculated functional ...
Finally, in this section, we display an estimate of the alpha diversity based on the taxonomic annotations for the predicted proteins. The alpha diversity is presented in context of othermetagenomesin the same project. View chapterExplore book ...
We compiled a global dataset of bee diversity from published sources of bee assemblages in sites differing in pressures such as land use, and used this to explore whether models of responses to human impacts are robust against geographic and taxonomic biases. Specifically, we hypothesized that bee...
Features of the TNRS that enabled it to achieve a higher rate of success than both Plantminer and the GNResolver included recognition of a larger diversity of botanical annotations and alternative formulations of infraspecific rank indicators ("ssp" instead of "subsp."), the ability to perform ...
In general, taxonomic databases have two fundamental functions: (1) provide an efficient system of storage and retrieval of taxonomic data; and (2) provide the evolu- tionary and diversity scenario of the organisms [28, 29]. To meet one or both functions, two approaches prevail in the ...
Table 3 The total traits considered in the analyses with an indication of their expected functional meaning and the number of Gower distance groups113. Full size table Estimation of the phylogenetic tree We calculated phylogenetic diversity from a tree calculated with sequences available in GenBank ...
levels. Ambiguous taxa are problematic because they can inflate the number of taxa in a sample (e.g., Are there three taxa or just one in this example?) and affect richness, diversity, and similarity measures. Ambiguous taxa should be addressed before data analysis (Cuffney et al., 2007)...
(e.g. Berlin1992; Zamudio & Hilgert2015) have established that prototypical basic categories of biological kinds are universally recognised in human cultures, and also that folk biological kinds are not restricted to those which are useful. Recognition of biological diversity through the medium of ...