Ecological effects of biodiversity (Biodiversity 🦗)

The diversity of species and genes in ecological communities affects the functioning of these communities. These ecological effects of biodiversity in turn are affected by both climate change through enhanced greenhouse gases, aerosols and loss of land cover, and ...

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

#EcologicalEffectsOfBiodiversity #Habitat #Biodiversity #DiseaseEcology #CommunityEcology #EcologicalRestoration

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#EcologicalPrinciples to guide the development of #CropVarietyMixtures🧑‍🌾

Niche differences underlying the different environmental responses can indicate functional complementarity and promote #MixtureYield and #YieldStability.

#Agroecology | #PlantBreeding | #CommunityEcology | #Pathogen/diseaseControl

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad017

Niche apportionment models (Biodiversity 🦗)

Mechanistic models for niche apportionment are biological models used to explain relative species abundance distributions. These niche apportionment models describe how species break up resource pool in multi-dimensional space, determining the distribution of abundances of individuals among species....

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

#NicheApportionmentModels #Biodiversity #EcologicalNiche #CommunityEcology #LandscapeEcology

DNCImper R package lastest version has been released today. It is now able to handle very large datasets as it can run on multiple CPU with new parallelization arguments.

https://github.com/Corentin-Gibert-Paleontology/DNCImper

DNCI can measure the equilibrium between niche and dispersal processes in community composition from abundance and occurrence matrices.

#Ecology #assembly_theory #CommunityProcesses #AssemblyProcesses #CommunityEcology #Paleontology #Niche #Dispersal

New preprint using neutral models instead of randomised null-models for analysis of species distribution patterns (#nestedness, #segregation).

Might also interest #coalescence, island #biogeography, bird people.

Has a quick-start tutorial.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.07.622409v1

#ecology #islandBiogeography #communityEcology #birds

Niche apportionment models (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

Mechanistic models for niche apportionment are biological models used to explain relative species abundance distributions. These niche apportionment models describe how species break up resource pool in multi-dimensional space, determining the distribution of abundances of individuals among sp...

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

#NicheApportionmentModels #Biodiversity #EcologicalNiche #CommunityEcology #LandscapeEcology

Individual trait variation within a population of dragonfly predators can affect prey community and ecosystem processes within a forested stream! In OA in Freshwater Biology

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/fwb.14242

#ecology #diversity #CommunityEcology #ecosystem #intraspecific

New paper out in Biological Reviews: Aligning spatial ecological theory with the study of clonal organisms: the case of fungal coexistence

Established ecological theory has focused on unitary organisms. Fungi are modular, and this creates a lot of issues.

We introduce the novel concept of the unit of community interactions (UCI), a conceptual tool for applying modern coexistence theory to communities of modular organisms.

#fungi #ecology #communityecology #biology

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.13119