Phylogenetic diversity
Edge-related loss of tree phylogenetic diversity in the severely fragmented Brazilian Atlantic forest.
... evolutionary diversity has never been examined despite the implications to conservation ...the phylogenetic distance between any two randomly chosen individuals and an increase by 17% in the distance ...
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Changes in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of the fish assemblage in a temperate estuary
... and phylogenetic) and examined relationships with environmental ...while phylogenetic diversity was higher in both upstream and downstream and lower in middle ...and phylogenetic), results are ...
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An enhanced calibration of a recently released megatree for the analysis of phylogenetic diversity
... calibrated phylogenetic trees, in which branch lengths correspond to evolutionary divergence times between nodes, are important requirements for computing measures of phylogenetic diversity or ...
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Patterns of Phylogenetic Diversity of Subtropical Rainforest of the Great Sandy Region, Australia Indicate Long Term Climatic Refugia.
... and diversity more than the area of the patch ...of diversity related to topographic and habitat heterogeneity ...using phylogenetic diversity (PD) measures and found that rainforest ...
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Biodiversity assessment among two Nebraska prairies: a comparison between traditional and phylogenetic diversity indices
... overall diversity at a site, but to characterize the source of biodiversity such as ancient ...events, phylogenetic relationships must be incorporated; 2) S may be a good indicator for some PD metrics but ...
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Updated angiosperm family tree for analyzing phylogenetic diversity and community structure
... For proof of concept, we checked the family-level classification of all angiosperm species from both datasets with the TNRS (Boyle et al. 2013). Then, we inserted them, according to their family classification, into ...
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Increasing land use drives changes in plant phylogenetic diversity and prevalence of specialists
... in phylogenetic diversity observed in disturbed GL and MF sites points out that, upon disturbance, flowering plant communities are offering pollinators increasingly similar suites of floral resources ...
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Partitioning the impact of environment and spatial structure on alpha and beta components of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity in European ants
... (TD), phylogenetic (PD), and functional (FD) diversity in ant communities found along different climate and anthropogenic disturbance gradients across western and central Europe, in order to assess the ...
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How do alien plants fit in the space-phylogeny matrix?
... The phylogenetic tree was reconstructed using DNA sequences from the plastid rbcL exon (coding for the ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit) for one exemplar species for each genus found ...
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Phylogenetic autocorrelation and evolutionary diversity of Carnivora (Mammalia) in Conservation Units of the New World
... Many phylogenetic diversity indexes and higher-taxon approaches have been used in this ...Faith’s phylogenetic indexes and the number of evolutionary independent lineages of Carnivora were calculated ...
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The lung microbiome of Ugandan HIV-infected pneumonia patients is compositionally and functionally distinct from that of San Franciscan patients.
... We next asked whether these two host gene expression profiles were related to other features of the microbiome. TNF-alpha expression was positively correlated with airway bacterial burden (r = 0.41, p ,0.01, q,0.05) and ...
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Global patterns of moss diversity: taxonomic and molecular inferences
... and phylogenetic diversity show con- gruent, even if subtle, geographic ...molecular diversity than a comparable Northern Hemisphere sample, but Southern Hemisphere accessions have the highest diver- ...
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Sample richness and genetic diversity as drivers of chimera formation in nSSU metagenetic analyses
... Eukaryotic diversity in environmental samples is often assessed via PCR-based amplification of nSSU ...of diversity derived from pyrosequencing environmental data sets are often inflated, mainly because of ...
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Plant Biodisity Dris in Brazilian Campos Rupestres: Insights from Phylogenetic Structure
... examining phylogenetic structure over environmental gradients in tropical plant communities have focused on climate, with only a few examining other factors such as soil fertility and even these tend to be focused ...
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Communities of endophytic sebacinales associated with roots of herbaceous plants in agricultural and grassland ecosystems are dominated by Serendipita herbamans sp. nov.
... the phylogenetic diversity and community structure of Sebacinales endophytes from agricultural and grassland habitats under different land uses, we analysed the roots of herbaceous plants using strain ...
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Environmental severity promotes phylogenetic clustering in campo rupestre vegetation
... Different types of neotropical rocky field vegetation displace tropical forests and savannas above certain altitudes (Alves & Kolbek 2010). Campo rupestre is a species-rich and diverse vegetation found on quartzite ...
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Proteogenomic analyses indicate bacterial methylotrophy and archaeal heterotrophy are prevalent below the grass root zone
... on phylogenetic analysis of single copy genes, is the high representation of organisms in the sub- root zone soils from phyla that are relatively poorly represented in the NCBI ...of phylogenetic ...
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Phylogenetic and pathotype analysis of
... the phylogenetic analysis, ...The phylogenetic group B2 is not common in intestinal samples from domestic swine (Chapman et ...pathogenic phylogenetic groups, ...
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Diversity of cetaceans as tool in monitoring environmental impacts of seismic surveys
... the diversity of species in areas where seismic research has been carried out, there is no scientific information on this ...and diversity of cetaceans recorded in Brazil following the stepping up of ...
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Genome re-sequencing of semi-wild soybean reveals a complex Soja population structure and deep introgression.
... It is believed that the cultivated soybean (G. max) was domesticated from the wild G. soja [1,2]. Our results demonstrate a complex transitional stage from wild to cultivated soybean: a mixed population including a ...
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