Functional diversity
An overview of the applicability of functional diversity in Biological Conservation
... Functional diversity is a component of biodiversity that encompass species features and, as a consequence, may predict ecosystem functioning more precisely (Díaz and Cabido, 2001; Cianciaruso et ...of ...
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Assessing the spatial variation of functional diversity estimates based on dendrograms in phytoplankton communities
... distinct functional diversity indices based on dendrograms: Functional Group Richness (FGR); Functional Diversity (FD) proposed by Petchey & Gaston (2002); Mean Pairwise Distance ...
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Functional diversity of plant-pollinator interaction webs enhances the persistence of plant communities.
... plant functional groups responded differently to pollinator func- tional group ...with functional diversity of pollination treatments (contrast [A þ B] versus C; Figure ...
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Functional diversity and functional traits of periphytic algae during a short-term successional process in a Neotropical floodplain lake
... algae functional diversity patterns during successional processes in floodplains, the present study aimed to analyze the dynamics of the functional traits and functional diversity of ...
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FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF KIELCE SUBURBAN MUNICIPALITIES VERSUS THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF THEIR INHABITANTS
... on functional diversity of the Kielce sub- urban municipalities and their inhabitants’ standard of living, we have used diagnostic variables obtained on the basis of a substantive evaluation, taking into ...
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Microbial Functional Diversity, Biomass and Activity as Affected by Soil Surface Mulching in a Semiarid Farmland.
... microbial functional diversity by carbon source use profiles was also sensitive to changes in the short term due to management ...microbial functional diversity and soil carbon availability ...
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Functional diversity of reproductive traits increases across succession in the Atlantic forest
... assembly. Functional traits are the currency of assembly, as stated by Weiher et ...and functional diversity may help to discriminate assembly processes (Mouchet et ...
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Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification.
... trait diversity (i.e. functional diversity, FD) and not species richness or functional group richness as our metric of diversity, because we wanted to use a metric that explicitly ...
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Expanded functional diversity of shaker K(+) channels in cnidarians is driven by gene expansion.
... producing functional diversity of Shaker channels in either mammals or ...gating diversity in mammalian Shaker channels is instead produced with multiple genes and co-assembly with cytoplasmic ...
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Assessing the impacts of mining activities on zooplankton functional diversity
... and functional diversity of zooplankton, we investigated the geochemical characteristics of the water and sediment in two small impoundments impacted by different mining activities (kaolin and iron ...
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Mangrove microniches determine the structural and functional diversity of enriched petroleum hydrocarbon-degrading consortia
... and functional genes potentially important in the process of petroleum hydrocarbon (PH) decontamination in mangrove micro- niches (rhizospheres and bulk ...the functional gene types targeted, suggesting ...
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FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY AND ITS ATTRIBUTE FACTORS IN THE YUNMENG MOUNTAIN NATIONAL FOREST PARK IN BEIJING, CHINA
... six functional diversity indices used were all effective in quantifying functional diversity and its variation in the forests of the Yunmeng Mountain Forest ...the functional distances ...
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Functional diversity as a methodology to rethink housing neighbourhoods
... The presented solutions are focused on the urban continuity as the main feature to be development regarding the urban fabric, based on the functional diversity of the place. They are proposing new green ...
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High functional diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis driven by genetic drift and human demography.
... tuberculosis diversity, but because just seven genes were analyzed, only a small number of phylogenetically informative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were ...strain diversity in MTBC have not been ...
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Comparative analysis of human and bovine protein kinases reveals unique relationship and functional diversity
... quence), although some were as low as 47.7%, with four pairs presenting high levels of sequence identity through- out the protein (Table S1). Although most differences be- tween orthologs are due to amino acid ...
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Identification and Characterisation CRN Effectors in Phytophthora capsici Shows Modularity and Functional Diversity.
... Phytophthora species secrete a large array of effectors during infection of their host plants. The Crinkler (CRN) gene family encodes a ubiquitous but understudied class of effectors with possible but as of yet unknown ...
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Phylogenetic and functional diversity of metagenomic libraries of phenol degrading sludge from petroleum refinery wastewater treatment system
... The potential metabolic functions for organic matter removal were established by comparison of all pyrose- quencing-derived sequences from phenol degrading sludge to the KEGG maps using functional assignments from ...
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Origination and immigration drive latitudinal gradients in marine functional diversity.
... To further test the OTT aspect of our hypothesis, we repeated our null modeling, this time drawing only from the pool of tropical genera, defined as those genera occurring between 20 uN and 20uS latitude. The results ...
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Freitas, JR.a , Cianciaruso, MV.b and Batalha, MA.a
... Biological diversity may affect community functioning by the role of each species in a given community (Díaz and Cabido, ...between diversity and community functioning used species richness as a measure of ...
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Diversidade funcional e funcionamento da comunidade : teste em uma área de cerrado
... and diversity are both covarying with environmental factors that change from place to place (Loreau 1998; Loreau and Hector 2001), because in such scale physical processes may dominate or dissipate biological ...
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