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#NativePlantInvasion mediates coupled homogenization of #SoilMetabolomes and microbial functional groups on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

#Allelopathy | #AlphaDiversity | #BetaDiversity | #BioticHomogenization | #Metabolomics

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag090

Alpha diversity (Biodiversity 🦗)

In ecology, alpha diversity is the mean species diversity in a site at a local scale. The term was introduced by R. H. Whittaker together with the terms beta diversity and gamma diversity. Whittaker's idea was that the total species diversity in a landscape is determined by two different things, the mean species diversity in sites at a more local scale and the di...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_diversity

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