In ecology, alpha diversity (α-diversity) is the mean species diversity in a site at a local scale. The term was introduced by R. H. Whittaker together...
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together with the terms alpha diversity (α-diversity) and gamma diversity (γ-diversity). The idea was that the total species diversity in a landscape (γ) is...
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gamma diversity (γ-diversity) is the total species diversity in a landscape. The term was introduced by R. H. Whittaker together with the terms alpha diversity...
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portal Alpha diversity Beta diversity Biodiversity Diversity index Measurement of biodiversity Biotic homogenization Coexistence theory Dark diversity Gamma...
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of the true diversity of order infinity (1/∞D). Alpha diversity Beta diversity Cultural diversity Effective number of parties, a diversity index applied...
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ecoregions. Some studies have indicated that alpha diversity is a good proxy for phylogenetic diversity, so suggesting that term has little use, but a...
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temperature and precipitation. He proposed the concepts of Alpha diversity, Beta diversity, and Gamma diversity. Whittaker was elected to the National Academy of...
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Generation Alpha (often shortened to Gen Alpha) is the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 2010s as...
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Biodiversity (redirect from Biological diversity)
increase local (i.e.: alpha diversity) diversity, which decreases turnover of diversity (i.e.: beta diversity). Overall gamma diversity may be lowered because...
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diversity, and can also be used to test various hypotheses pertaining to biogeography. The most basic measure of community diversity, alpha diversity...
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dark diversity and beta diversity. If beta diversity is the association between alpha and gamma diversity, dark diversity connects alpha diversity and...
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landscape change whilst specialist species are suffering. For example, the alpha diversity of edge-intolerant birds in Lacandona rainforest, Mexico, is decreasing...
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its growth. alpha diversity The average species diversity of sites or habitats at a local scale. Alpha diversity combined with beta diversity yields gamma...
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understanding of the difference between alpha (α) and beta (β) diversity. Alpha diversity refers to diversity within a community: it addresses how many...
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latitude high alpha diversity resulting from climatic equitability during the Early Eocene in combination with resultant beta diversity between sites...
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different scales. These are three indices used by ecologists: Alpha diversity refers to diversity within a particular area, community or ecosystem, and is...
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restricted to tropical dry forests, particularly in plants; beta diversity and alpha diversity high but typically lower than adjacent moist forests. Effective...
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Chi Alpha | ΧΑ (sometimes XA, χα, xa, or SfC - Students for Christ, officially known as Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship), is an international and interdenominational...
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in different biogeographic regions, leading to very high levels of alpha diversity. In the tropics, Ficus commonly is the most species-rich plant genus...
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Brian D. E.; Ramsköld, Lars (8 February 2016). "Silurian trilobite alpha diversity and the end-Ordovician mass extinction". Paleobiology. 26 (4): 625–646...
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The University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racist incident, known as SAE-OU racist chant incident, occurred on March 7, 2015, when members of the...
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ) is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social...
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{var} (\alpha _{ij})=\sigma _{\alpha }^{2}/S} , and correlations c o r r ( α i j , α j i ) = γ {\displaystyle \mathrm {corr} (\alpha _{ij},\alpha _{ji})=\gamma...
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horneri fermented seaweed fertilizer, showed a large shift in alpha diversity and beta diversity indices between untreated soils and soils after 60 days. This...
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PMID 27383982. S2CID 4461492. "Serum metabolites reflecting gut microbiome alpha diversity predict type 2 diabetes". Metabolon. Retrieved 3 November 2022. Liubakka...
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methods for full ecological study. eDNA metabarcoding has applications to diversity monitoring across all habitats and taxonomic groups, ancient ecosystem...
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the Phanerozoic Era, when both global biodiversity and alpha diversity (community-level diversity) were devastated. On land, the Changhsingian fauna comprised...
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Klug, Christian (2018-05-01). "Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous alpha diversity, ecospace occupation, vertebrate assemblages and bio-events of southeastern...
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biodiversity — Agroecological restoration — All-taxa biodiversity inventory — Alpha diversity — Applied ecology — Arca-Net — ASEAN Center for Biodiversity — ASEAN...
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Beta diversity was the most important component of biodiversity increase from the Furongian to the Tremadocian. From the Floian onward, alpha diversity dethroned...
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