• Combined, these novel data sources have substantially advanced the understanding of the (macro)ecology and biogeography of biological invasions, and they provide the foundation for exploring future trends of alien species spread and impacts. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Členové katedry ekologie se podílejí na výzkumu publikovaném v prestižních časopisech, jak mezioborových, jako je například Science nebo Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), tak i těch nejvýznamnějších v rámci oboru, jako jsou Trends in Ecology & Evolution (TREE), Ecology , Ecology Letters , Global Change Biology , Journal of Biogeography , American Naturalist a další. (cuni.cz)
  • As well as providing natural distribution maps for each species, Farjon and Filer give the reader comprehensive insight into the biogeography, diversity and conservation status of conifers on all continents, dispelling the widely held view that they are primarily a northern boreal plant group. (brill.com)
  • Rate-of-change analysis in palaeoecology revisited: a new approach. (uib.no)
  • Vegetation pattern was described using trend surface analysis, spatial autocorrelation analysis and redundancy analysis. (ucsb.edu)
  • Through project work and exercises you will learn different measurement methodologies, such as vegetation inventory, data analysis and visualisation, chemical soil and vegetation analysis and measurements of carbon dioxide exchange between soil, vegetation and atmosphere. (lu.se)
  • Biogeographic analyses suggest that the tropical Indo-Pacific region is the most probable ancestral area of the genus that diversified through vicariance events. (mapress.com)
  • to infer the relationships of Mesembrinellidae species and to perform a biogeographic analysis, based on the phylogenetic hypothesis. (usp.br)
  • The biogeographic analyses showed Mesembrinellidae´s origin was probably in South America and the southernmost part of Central America, having dispersed lateron to Central America. (usp.br)
  • A cladistic analysis of the known species of Ansomys , as well as new material from Hepburn's Mesa and a few other morphologically similar species, prompted reconstruction of the biogeographic history of the genus. (bioone.org)
  • Focusing on Neotropical weevils in the Exophthalmus genus complex (EGC) (Insecta: Curculionidae: Entiminae), we compare three commonly used biogeographic models - DIVA (Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis), DEC (Dispersal-Extinction-Cladogenesis) and BayArea (Bayesian Analysis of Biogeography), and examine the impact of modeling founder-event jump dispersal on historical biogeographic reconstructions. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Cladistic analyses were performed with 21 morphological characters, including 15 ingroup and eight outgroup species. (mapress.com)
  • Biogeography and character evolution in Mediterranean, Asiatic and Macaronesian Helichrysum (Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae) inferred from nuclear phylogenetic analyses. (uab.cat)
  • Although the agenda of these authors was not taxonomic, their phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence data reveals that "the tropical American [ Magnolia ] section Talauma branched first," i.e., is sister to the rest of the genus. (mobot.org)
  • The aim of this article is to review the consequences of advances in molecular genetics for researchers of Collembola biogeography. (senckenberg.de)
  • We discuss amplicon-based DNA barcoding and metabarcoding for the analysis of community diversity and molecular gut content analysis for assessing predator-prey relationships. (springer.com)
  • Molecular phylogeny of the Magnoliaceae: the biogeography of tropical and temperate disjunctions. (mobot.org)
  • In fact, the differences between the environments occupied by adjacent troops in well-known national parks may be as large or larger than the average differences in the ranges of different species, and this may have important implications for baboon biogeography. (karger.com)
  • in particular, BBO was motivated by biogeography, which is the study of the distribution of biological species through time and space. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mathematical models of biogeography describe speciation (the evolution of new species), the migration of species (animals, fish, birds, or insects) between islands, and the extinction of species. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the last two decades, DNA barcoding, the sequencing of short species-specific amplicons, has considerably simplified community analyses (Hebert et al. (springer.com)
  • Progress in data coverage and availability, supplemented by new tools for data integration and analyses have facilitated the compilation of comprehensive databases of world-wide alien species distributions such as GloNAF (https://glonaf.org/) for vascular plants (van Kleunen et al. (uibk.ac.at)
  • This method thus opens the way for addressing important questions about the genetic diversity, gene flow, adaptation, dispersal, and biogeography of hitherto unexplored species. (lu.se)
  • We showed how metabarcoding can be used in a complementary way with previous morphological observations to study the biogeography of mixotrophic protists and to identify key drivers of their biogeography. (nature.com)
  • Bayesian analyses could obviate many of the issues of uncertainty associated with low counts and zero-observation cells. (cdc.gov)
  • His classes usually have a strong focus on analytical skills including learning to work in the R environment, GIS and spatial analysis. (aum.edu)
  • We combined measurements of bulk microbial and soil properties with high-throughput microbial community analyses to elucidate microbial responses and microbial-mediated alterations to carbon cycling. (nature.com)
  • Journal of Biogeography. (uib.no)
  • Journal of Biogeography 44(2): 421-432. (cuni.cz)
  • Journal of Biogeography 44(1): 18-27. (cuni.cz)
  • Frontiers of Biogeography (FoB) is the scientific journal of the International Biogeography Society (IBS, www.biogeography.org ), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promotion of and public understanding of the biogeographical sciences. (escholarship.org)
  • Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is an evolutionary algorithm (EA) that optimizes a function by stochastically and iteratively improving candidate solutions with regard to a given measure of quality, or fitness function. (wikipedia.org)
  • This work facilitates ecosystem-related analyses that align with IATTC's responsibilities mandated by the Antigua Convention. (iattc.org)
  • Through a combination of lectures and exercises you will gain both theoretical and practical understanding of ecosystems and ecosystem analysis. (lu.se)
  • You will learn about ecosystem processes, ecosystem-atmosphere exchange, aquatic systems and biogeography. (lu.se)
  • You will also learn how to plan and carry out a field study within the subject of ecosystem analysis. (lu.se)
  • Ecosystem analysis, 10 credit points are recommended. (lu.se)
  • Redundancy analysis and Mantel test indicated that soil nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, and available potassium content were important environmental attributes that control the Nitrobacter - and Nitrospira -like NOB community structure across different fertilization treatments under aggregate levels in the red soil. (frontiersin.org)
  • Assessing attribute redundancy in the application of productivity-susceptibility analysis to data-limited fisheries. (iattc.org)
  • In recent years, large-scale community analyses have benefitted tremendously from advances in DNA barcoding technology. (springer.com)
  • Build data systems that link various data sources and allow for automated, more efficient data analysis and visualization. (cdc.gov)
  • This document presents a brief situation analysis, discusses the way forward and suggests what countries and their partners can do to relieve the plight of individuals and communities affected by sickle-cell disease, which remains a grossly neglected health problem. (who.int)
  • Five mite communities can be discriminated by means of a correspondence analysis and of the specific abundance values in the habitats: Communities in (1) salt marsh sites in the estuary river zone, (2) a dune meadow, (3) a sandy dune area with low shrubs, (4) coastal bush-land on rocky substrate, (5) a floodplain forest in the limnic river zone. (senckenberg.de)
  • The data set is created by the GLAD (Global Land Analysis & Discovery) lab at the University of Maryland and supported by Global Forest Watch, which is the first Landsat-based alert system for tree cover loss. (lu.se)
  • Principal co-ordinate analysis revealed that Nitrobacter - and Nitrospira -like NOB communities under four fertilizer regimes were differentiated from each other, but soil aggregate fractions had less effect on the nitrite oxidizers community. (frontiersin.org)
  • Genome-scale phylodynamics and evolution analysis of global H7N7 influenza viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • A global meta-analysis of marine predator nitrogen stable isotopes: Relationships between trophic structure and environmental conditions. (iattc.org)
  • Methods To test our prediction, we used a meta-analysis to quantify empirical support for asymmetry in the performance of high- and low-latitude margin populations compared to central populations. (stir.ac.uk)
  • In the teaching, observation data and model scenarios are used to train critical analysis of e.g. data representativeness, model assumptions and validation against independent information. (lu.se)
  • In a greenhouse experiment, morpho-anatomical and micromorphometrical analyses of two soybean cultivars, MG/BR46 (Conquista) and BR16-tolerant and sensitive to drought, respectively-were used to study their water-deficit-tolerance strategies. (scielo.br)
  • These predictions qualitatively match the results of recent meta‐analyses. (escholarship.org)
  • We then address the development of theoretical frameworks for community-level studies, and finally highlight critical gaps and future directions for DNA analysis of spider communities. (springer.com)
  • κ=9,6875), much more structured and with few politomies, in comparison to the previous analysis. (usp.br)
  • Here, we review the current state of the application of these technologies to the analysis of spider communities. (springer.com)
  • We developed and implemented the analysis of single amplified genomes followed by restriction-site-associated DNA sequencing to bypass labor-intensive culturing and to avoid culturing bias in population genomic studies of unicellular eukaryotes. (lu.se)
  • One hundred twenty (120) characters were constructed and cladistics analyses were performed, under equal and implied weighting schemes. (usp.br)