• Extensiphy is suitable for updating large sequence alignments and is ideal for studies of biodiversity, ecology and epidemiological monitoring efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • A major question in evolution and ecology is why biodiversity is so unevenly distributed on Earth. (journalofbiogeographynews.org)
  • The Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change oversees research and training that address the local and global patterns of biodiversity change and support the development of knowledge and data-driven tools to guide conservation solutions, according to Walter Jetz, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of forestry and environmental studies. (yaledailynews.com)
  • Dr. James Bever is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas where his research focuses on understanding the influence of microbiomes on plant productivity and diversity. (serdp-estcp.org)
  • Dr. Nichole Barger is an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. (serdp-estcp.org)
  • He is interested in macroecology, biodiversity and evolutionary ecology. (cuni.cz)
  • The French Biodiversity Agency (OFB) is a public institution under the authority of the ministries responsible for Ecology and Agriculture & Food. (kmae-journal.org)
  • Deborah E. Goldberg is the Arthur Thurnau Professor Emerita and Margaret B. Davis Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, where she served as associate chair and chair for a total of 15 years and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona. (b2science.org)
  • Understanding their origin and impact on plankton ecology will be important for evaluating the resilience of marine biodiversity in a changing ocean. (nature.com)
  • Fitzpatrick holds a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Tennessee and held a postdoctoral position at the Harvard Forest. (sesync.org)
  • The new model also sheds light on one of the most controversial questions in evolutionary ecology: whether or not there is a limit to the diversity that the Earth can support. (eurekalert.org)
  • We do experimental evolutionary ecology of microbial systems. (umn.edu)
  • I am a researcher at Lund University with broad interests in ecology and evolutionary biology, including the fundamental processes of ecology, evolution and biogeographical processes that underpin community and ecosystem structure and dynamics. (lu.se)
  • Anthropogenic biomes, also known as anthromes, human biomes or intensive land-use biome, describe the terrestrial biosphere (biomes) in its contemporary, human-altered form using global ecosystem units defined by global patterns of sustained direct human interaction with ecosystems. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a recent global ecosystem classification, anthropogenic biomes have been incorporated into several distinct functional biomes in the terrestrial and freshwater realms, and additional units have been described for the freshwater, marine, subterranean and transitional realms to create a more comprehensive description of all ecosystems created and maintained by human activities. (wikipedia.org)
  • This approach consists of, first, developing ways to understand how land-use change and global warming impact species and ecosystems and, second, developing more effective policies to sustainably manage ecosystems. (yaledailynews.com)
  • Fundamental knowledge of the genetic, evolutionary and ecological attributes and functions of species provides the foundation for understanding how biodiversity and ecosystems will respond to global environmental change. (edu.au)
  • Insects are estimated to comprise more than half of all described species and are a dominant component of biodiversity in most ecosystems. (bob2023.cz)
  • Therefore, they represent unique ecosystems to study evolutionary processes and dynamics over a long geological time scale. (knaw.nl)
  • My research focuses on understanding how the biotic and abiotic components of the Earth system vary across space and time, their interactions, and predicting shifts in the distribution of biodiversity due to natural and anthropogenic events in terrestrial and marine ecosystems. (szn.it)
  • Wildfires are common and widespread in ecosystems, serving as a global "herbivore" in the determination of plant distribution, and therefore, community composition ( Bond and Keeley, 2005 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • BECC researchers study how direct and indirect human impacts on the climate and ecosystems influence biodiversity and ecosystem functioning from local to global scales, and how knowledge about these dynamics may inform mitigation and adaptation decisions in the face of such changes. (lu.se)
  • BECC focuses on three Grand Challenges that must be tackled to assess the combined consequences of anthropogenic emissions, climate and land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services and provide a basis for informed societal responses, with a focus on critical changes in forest, agricultural, urban and arctic ecosystems, including interactions between terrestrial and aquatic systems. (lu.se)
  • Through the 19th century, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace were some of the world explorers who tried to solve the riddle about what circumstances and relationships regulated and determined the distribution of biodiversity on Earth. (dg.dk)
  • Examine the patterns and processes involved in the distribution of biodiversity. (sunwayuniversity.edu.my)
  • BACKGROUND: Given the lack of new antimicrobials or a vaccine, understanding the evolutionary dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a significant public and global health priority. (cdc.gov)
  • Therefore, clarifying the functions of seed banks in community and population dynamics is a key challenge for understanding basic ecological patterns and processes 7 . (china-environment-net.com)
  • Understanding the natural dynamics of biodiversity at different spatial and temporal scales is essential for evaluating the impact of humans on diversity dynamics. (groms.de)
  • We will combine evolutionary palaeoecology and experimental evolution to study and understand diatom population dynamics in the Lake Ohrid sedimentary record, covering ~1.4 Ma. (knaw.nl)
  • The overall course objective is for students to gain an understanding of the ecological and evolutionary basis of biodiversity, to compare the relative contributions of environment and history on biodiversity dynamics, and to highlight important links between biodiversity, environmental health and human wellbeing. (sunwayuniversity.edu.my)
  • Current research foci include the integration of community and ecosystem processes in plant invasions, the role of clonality in species interactions and community dynamics, and effects of climate change on alpine plant communities. (b2science.org)
  • ICM-CSIC researcher Carmen García-Comas, who led the study added: 'It was really exciting to see that the dynamics of global diversity resulting from our regional diversification model were similar to what is seen in the fossil record. (eurekalert.org)
  • We adopt a modeling framework for spatiotemporal predator-pest dynamics that in addition to landscape structure, explicitly includes eco-evolutionary dynamics and adaptation in functional traits (e.g. body size, feeding specialization and dispersal). (lu.se)
  • In this research we investigate the decision-making process and the establishment of priorities in the biodiversity conservation under the approach of different publics. (ndltd.org)
  • On the one hand, I aim to provide a better understanding of biogeography, global change biology, biological invasions and macroecology, applying my findings to spatial planning and conservation biology. (szn.it)
  • Biodiversity and Conservation, 29: 1959-1976. (szn.it)
  • The exam focuses on processes and relation that are important for research or practical action in conservation biology. (lu.se)
  • However, environmental factors can not directly change the regional richness of species in the absence of evolutionary processes such as speciation, extinction and dispersal. (journalofbiogeographynews.org)
  • 2020) The role of evolutionary time, diversification rates and dispersal in determining the global diversity of a large radiation of passerine birds. (journalofbiogeographynews.org)
  • We were interested to unravel the relative roles of diversification rates, evolutionary time and dispersal for the build-up of the babbler diversity. (journalofbiogeographynews.org)
  • These processes have been proved to facilitate dispersal and vicariance for many lineages that might increase or decrease the number of taxa common to different regions 19 , and ultimately alter their pairwise faunistic relationships over time. (nature.com)
  • We describe three of the 'control knobs' for a GSM that specify simple rules for dispersal, evolutionary origins and environmental gradients. (edu.au)
  • Mammal responses to edge density seem to be regulated by large-scale processes, such as an increasing dispersal in landscapes with higher edge density, and not by local-scale processes (e.g. edge effects). (researchsquare.com)
  • Identifying the spatial extent at which a given biological response more strongly interacts with a given landscape variable is highly valuable to understand the ecological processes (e.g. dispersal, extinction, births and deaths) that may be regulating such response. (researchsquare.com)
  • We focus on the phylogenetic distance between communities (phylobetadiversity) as it contains signals from both ecological and evolutionary processes and we construct spatially explicit eco-evolutionary community models that generate phylobetadiversity patterns, given different degrees of ecological interactions, dispersal propensity of the organism and properties of the environmental gradient. (lu.se)
  • Then, the researchers brought together all of the material in an interdisciplinary field ranging from macroecology and evolutionary biology to the sciences of geology. (dg.dk)
  • My Ph.D. focused on global lizard macroecology and was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Shai Meiri , and Prof. Yoni Belmaker . (uriroll.com)
  • Since the 19th century, when world explorers and scientists first began to examine and document the Earth's biodiversity, researchers have tried to find answers to what exactly makes the species' patterns of distribution the way they are. (dg.dk)
  • Freshwater ecoregions provide a global biogeographic regionalization of the Earth's freshwater biodiversity. (sciencebase.gov)
  • Earth's biodiversity faces major losses caused by global change, including climate warming and eutrophication. (knaw.nl)
  • Marine plankton populate 70% of Earth's surface, providing the energy that fuels ocean food webs and contributing to global biogeochemical cycles. (nature.com)
  • Mobility depends on a complex individual on or above the Earth's surface 24 hours a day with a repertoire of biological, behavioral and environmental processes high level of accuracy [18]. (cdc.gov)
  • Resilient stream systems are those that will support a full spectrum of biodiversity and maintain their functional integrity even as species compositions and hydrologic properties change in response to shifts in ambient conditions due to climate change. (sciencebase.gov)
  • In January 2022, the Project announced a $15 million Climate Impact Innovation Fund to support Yale faculty's early-stage research on solutions related to climate change, environmental health, biodiversity loss and environmental justice. (yaledailynews.com)
  • Exotic species invasions present a global issue that is expected to worsen with the extreme conditions brought about by global climate change and anthropogenic disturbance. (syr.edu)
  • The Anthropocene environmental challenges, in particular biodiversity loss, climate change, exploitation of natural resources, pollution and the spread of exotic species are threatening nature and human well-being. (senckenberg.de)
  • Leading tropical environments, for assessing the cascading ecologic into the International Polar Year 2007-2008, we outline ap- effects of global climate change. (cdc.gov)
  • Considering that human populations and their use of land have fundamentally altered global patterns of ecosystem form, process, and biodiversity, anthropogenic biomes provide a framework for integrating human systems with the biosphere in the Anthropocene. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is the case of the Madagascar grasslands, whose origins have been debated with arguments proposing them either as anthropogenic, created with the arrival of humans around 2000BP, or as ancient features of the natural landscape with a forest fragmentation process due to environmental changes pre-dating human arrival [e.g. 1,2]. (peercommunityin.org)
  • These new exhibits present Senckenberg's marine biodiversity research and that of our national and international partners, providing insight into Senckenberg's systemic approach to nature, covering the biosciences, geosciences and social-ecological research. (senckenberg.de)
  • This supports the use of the model to reconstruct the spatial distributions of diversity in deep time, allowing us to resolve when and how marine biodiversity hotspots originated. (eurekalert.org)
  • The study revealed that the diversity and density of soil seed banks in high latitude frigid zones are generally higher than those in low latitude tropical zones on a global scale, said Huang Zhenying, leader of the research team with the Institute of Botany, CAS. (china-environment-net.com)
  • This geographic pattern of global diversity has been extensively analyzed in plants and vertebrates, and has been suggested to be attributed to climatic and topographic variables. (journalofbiogeographynews.org)
  • From an evolutionary perspective, high regional diversity may be the result of high net diversification (speciation minus extinction) rate, multiple immigration events from adjacent regions, and/or a long time available for the accumulation of species. (journalofbiogeographynews.org)
  • However, the relative importance of these different evolutionary processes in shaping regional diversity patterns is poorly known. (journalofbiogeographynews.org)
  • To examine the different routes to the build-up of global diversity patterns, we focused on the biodiversity hotpots in the Sino-Himalayan Mountains (Image 1) and oceanic islands of the Indo-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions using the large avian babbler radiation as a model system. (journalofbiogeographynews.org)
  • We were intrigued by such a high diversity of babblers in two different settings, i.e. a montane region and oceanic islands, and the underlying mechanisms shaping this pattern. (journalofbiogeographynews.org)
  • Between the inception of life, estimated to be about 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, and today, biotic diversity has increased in a process of enormous evolutionary radiation and specialisation. (groms.de)
  • There is evidence that global diversity today is lower than it was 5 to 15 million years ago. (groms.de)
  • Dr. Bever's research group has investigated the importance of this process for understanding patterns of native plant diversity, as well as approaches to restoring native plant communities following disturbance or invasion by non-native species. (serdp-estcp.org)
  • Unlike microevolution , which involves changes within a species, macroevolution deals with the broader patterns and processes of evolution that shape the diversity of life on a grand scale. (microbiologynote.com)
  • By studying the available evidence, we can gain a deeper understanding of the processes that have shaped life on Earth and appreciate the remarkable diversity and interconnectedness of living organisms. (microbiologynote.com)
  • Evolutionary palaeoecology will be used to reconstruct the evolutionary patterns in the fossil record, and evaluate the role of major global change factors in shaping phenotype (i.e. morphological) diversity. (knaw.nl)
  • Integration of results from both research fields will delineate the processes leading to high levels of phenotypic diversity and promote persistence of freshwater primary producers to global change. (knaw.nl)
  • Similarly, microorganisms exhibit patterns in relative abundance, distribution, diversity, and traits across space and time, yet it remains unclear the extent to which microorganisms follow macroecological rules initially developed for macroorganisms. (frontiersin.org)
  • At the community level microorganisms often tracked patterns of macroorganisms for island biogeography (74% confirm) but rarely followed Latitudinal Diversity Gradients (LDGs) of macroorganisms (only 32% confirm). (frontiersin.org)
  • Contrasting patterns of phylogenetic diversity and alpine specialization across the alpine flora of the American mountain range system. (capturingcaliforniasflowers.org)
  • used species distribution models to compare patterns of diversity due to phylogenetic (i.e., evolutionary relatedness) and abiotic factors. (capturingcaliforniasflowers.org)
  • They found that different alpine communities across the Americas-for example, Patagonian versus Rocky Mountain communities -- showed different patterns of diversity, suggesting that each region assembled due to unique factors. (capturingcaliforniasflowers.org)
  • Ecological theory states that as diversity increases and biological interactions, such as competition, intensify, the process of diversification slows down to a halt, so that the appearance and establishment of a new species will inevitably lead to the extinction of an old one. (eurekalert.org)
  • In this study, we measured the phylogenetic and functional diversity and trait dispersions of understory communities and tested how these patterns changed with stand age in the Great Xing'an Mountains of Northeastern China. (frontiersin.org)
  • Global viral diversity is substantial, but viruses that contribute little to the public health burden or to agricultural damage receive minimal attention until a seemingly unimportant virus becomes a threat. (springer.com)
  • Global viral diversity is substantial, but viruses that have a low public health burden or cause negligible agricultural damage tend to receive little to no attention. (springer.com)
  • Aim: The latitudinal diversity gradient of increasing species richness from poles to equator is one of the most striking and pervasive spatial patterns of biodiversity. (umn.edu)
  • Climate appears to have been key to the formation of the latitudinal diversity gradient, but the processes through which climate shaped species richness remain unclear. (umn.edu)
  • By exploring such models, I hope to formulate theory that facilitates our understanding of the generation and maintenance of species richness, functional trait diversity, and phylogenetic patterns. (lu.se)
  • We use an integrative approach including theoretical, methodological and applied subparts that enable: i) a better understanding of observed diversity gradients, ii) inference of assembly processes from community data and iii) prediction of biodiversity to novel conditions. (lu.se)
  • Global Change Biology, in press. (szn.it)
  • This page is an informal guide to the history of evolutionary biology from about 1800 to about 1950. (equisetites.de)
  • Yet, to our knowledge, no comprehensive literature search has defined when microbial biogeographic patterns conform to those expected by various macroecological rules or the mechanisms driving microbial biogeographic patterns. (frontiersin.org)
  • Here, we analyse the extensive dataset generated by the Tara Oceans expedition for marine microbial eukaryotes (protists) and use an adaptive algorithm to explore how metabarcoding-based abundance distributions vary across plankton communities in the global ocean. (nature.com)
  • Lennon, J. T. & Jones, S. E. Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy. (nature.com)
  • Indeed, seed banks support population persistence and biodiversity maintenance through temporal storage effects 3 and increasing the gene pool 4 , thereby maintaining a diverse but hidden species pool belowground that hedges against risk of environmental change 3 . (china-environment-net.com)
  • Temporal data allow to focus on the estimation of evolutionary parameters in the recent past, which may be more relevant to understand the present and predict the evolutionary outcome of populations facing environmental change. (peercommunityin.org)
  • The biodiversity is facing an extinction crisis and an increase of pressures and threats due to human actions, what often requires immediate decisions and prioritization of actions for the application of scarce resources. (ndltd.org)
  • As only the fossil record can give us information about species numbers in past times and most of the soft-bodied organisms did not leave any fossil remains behind, quantitative data on patterns of diversification and extinction throughout geological time are very scarce. (groms.de)
  • These lines of evidence help us understand the vast array of life forms that have evolved over billions of years and contribute to our understanding of biodiversity and the interconnectedness of all living organisms. (microbiologynote.com)
  • It encompasses the study of patterns and processes that shape the biodiversity and relationships between different groups of organisms throughout evolutionary history. (microbiologynote.com)
  • This project will use diatoms, single-celled siliceous algae and among the dominant phytoplankton groups, as model-organisms to study the link between changes in the environment, biodiversity and evolutionary adaptation. (knaw.nl)
  • I have explored spatial patterns in a wide range of organisms including both extant and fossil species from bacteria to whales. (szn.it)
  • He is a quantitative global change ecologist interested in how climate drives ecological patterns and processes, with an emphasis on understanding the distribution of species, patterns of biodiversity, and range expansion of native and introduced organisms. (sesync.org)
  • Many organisms are yet unknown to science, and considerable effort is still required to define global biodiversity. (lycaenid.org)
  • It also has the potential both to build a predictive set of local, regional and global relationships between plants and environment and to quantify a wide range of natural and human-driven processes, including changes in biodiversity, the impacts of species invasions, alterations in biogeochemical processes and vegetation-atmosphere interactions. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Understanding the factors governing both the invasion process and the species that become invasive are important tools for lessening the impacts of plant invasion, as well as preventing future invasions. (syr.edu)
  • We hope this new handbook becomes a standard companion in local and global efforts to learn about the responses and impacts of different plant species with respect to environmental changes in the present, past and future. (elsevierpure.com)
  • He further explained the major impacts of biological invasion in biodiversity, ecosystem process and evolutionary processes. (resourceshimalaya.org)
  • We found that random patterns of phylogenetic, functional, and trait dispersions were dominant for most of our surveyed plots, indicating that stochastic processes may play a crucial role in the determination of understory community assembly. (frontiersin.org)
  • Yet, there was an evidence that understory community assembly was also determined by competitive exclusion and environmental filtering to a certain degree, which was demonstrated by the observed clustered phylogenetic and functional patterns in some plots. (frontiersin.org)
  • The observed shift trends in phylogenetic and functional patterns between random to clustering along with stand age, which suggested that understory community assembly shifted from stochasticity to competitive exclusion and environmental filtering. (frontiersin.org)
  • Based on a near-complete time-calibrated phylogeny and a reconstructed evolutionary history, we found that babblers originated in the Sino-Himalayan Mountains, suggesting a long time for diversification and species accumulation within this region. (journalofbiogeographynews.org)
  • Macroevolution refers to the large-scale evolutionary changes that occur above the level of species, involving the emergence of new taxa (genera, families, orders, etc.) and the diversification of life forms over long periods of time. (microbiologynote.com)
  • Chinese researchers have compiled and analyzed a database to characterize global determinants and patterns of soil seed banks. (china-environment-net.com)
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. (ndltd.org)
  • Using shared identifiers to crosslink openly available information on taxa, journals, publications and people, this 'biodiversity knowledge graph' reveals the connections between researchers, research outputs and the data their work supports while, in Page's words, moving 'beyond tables to thinking in terms of connected networks of relationships. (gbif.org)
  • By making our digitized specimen data available not only through the CCH2 portal , but also through global aggregators GBIF and iDigBio , researchers across the world can view and use this valuable resource for studies in their fields. (capturingcaliforniasflowers.org)
  • The importance of these topics dictates the urgent need for more and better data, and increases the value of standardised protocols for quantifying trait variation of different species, in particular for traits with power to predict plant-and ecosystem-level processes, and for traits that can be measured relatively easily. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Different facets of the same niche: integrating citizen and science data to predict invasion risk under multiple global change drivers. (szn.it)
  • Predict changes in biodiversity due to human activities at local and global level. (sunwayuniversity.edu.my)
  • Species richness and total abundance seem to be moderated by ecological processes acting across similar spatial scales, but the SoE tends to increase with body mass. (researchsquare.com)
  • Ancient lakes stand as "hot-spots" of biodiversity and endemism and often contain Quaternary sedimentary sequences with well-preserved geo-biological information. (knaw.nl)
  • He is particularly interested in the processes of emergence and disappearance of biological species, their ranges and ecological characteristics. (cuni.cz)
  • For example, those that describe patterns of abundance or biodiversity of plants and animals (e.g., latitudinal/elevational clines in biodiversity, species-area relationships, species-abundance distributions, and island biogeographic patterns) should easily translate to microorganisms since these rules share a common theoretical underpinning of applying the drivers of local, regional and continental community assembly to larger scales. (frontiersin.org)
  • Here, I focus on one of the fundamental Real Life-Science challenges requiring tools to characterize, monitor and forecast changes in biodiversity patterns that can be crucial for human socio-economic interests. (szn.it)
  • When scant information is available about a novel emerging virus, understanding it within a framework of evolutionary relationships can help characterize it in the context of its most closely related species and their known hosts and vectors. (springer.com)
  • Knowledge of the underlying processes and mechanisms that govern the generation, maintenance and loss of biodiversity is fundamental for making predictions on the future. (groms.de)
  • The amazing similarity in genetic sequences between such different species demonstrates the immense role adaptation plays in shaping an organism's evolutionary trajectory. (mongabay.com)
  • BECC develops research that targets sustainable management of ecosystem services in a world undergoing rapid change and loss of biodiversity. (lu.se)
  • The knowledge generated by BECC serves the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services into policy development, decision-making and praxis, from local to global level. (lu.se)
  • More specifically, we aim to answer calls for an eco-evolutionary trait-based perspective on ecosystem services. (lu.se)
  • On the other hand, excellent vision has made possible the evolution of patterns on the wings and bodies, where the scales interact with light with pigments that absorb light and structured chitin that refracts light. (bob2023.cz)
  • However, it remains uncertain how these processes shaped the evolution and emergence of the present-day zoogeographical regions surrounding the TP. (nature.com)
  • Experimental evolution studies will be used to investigate the species-specific long-term, evolutionary responses under different temperature and phosphorus regimes. (knaw.nl)
  • Testing processes of evolution relies on the identification of patterns of biodiversity. (lycaenid.org)
  • Evolution is well-known as the process by which different species form, and scientists have long-known that evolution can result in the appearance of similar traits in wildly-different animals. (mongabay.com)
  • This, along with similar patterns among Ediacarans, has led to the hypothesis that the Ediacaran fauna functioned according to different 'rules' of development from those of all successive multicellular life. (creation.com)
  • To test the time for speciation hypothesis, we conducted ancestral state reconstructions to infer the ages of temperate, subtropical and tropical lineages and frequency of evolutionary transitions between climates. (umn.edu)
  • The simulation approach offers new insights into the origin and maintenance of species richness patterns, and may provide a common framework for investigating the effects of contemporary climate, evolutionary history and geometric constraints on global biodiversity gradients. (edu.au)
  • Her research concerns mechanisms generating species richness patterns at various spatial scales. (cuni.cz)
  • The Challenge is an annual incentive prize that honours the memory of Dr Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen, an inspirational leader in the fields of biosystematics and biodiversity informatics and one of the principal founders of GBIF. (gbif.org)
  • The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and iDigBio are two major aggregators of natural history specimen data. (capturingcaliforniasflowers.org)
  • He added that the study also provided evidence of how environmental conditions shape the distribution of soil seed banks, which enables a more accurate prediction of the resilience and vulnerabilities of plant communities and biomes under global changes. (china-environment-net.com)
  • These findings indicated that Eurasian boreal understory communities may be primarily regulated by stochastic processes, providing complementary evidence that stochastic processes are crucial in the determination of community assembly both in tropical and boreal forests. (frontiersin.org)
  • Two core processes have been proposed to explain vegetation assembly following stand-replacing disturbances (e.g., wildfire, wind, logging), namely stochastic processes and deterministic processes. (frontiersin.org)
  • Further, seed banks can affect the potential rate and even direction of evolutionary change because they increase the mean generation times of populations 5 , 6 . (china-environment-net.com)
  • Evolutionary change at the macroscopic level can be driven by various mechanisms, including natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow, and mutation. (microbiologynote.com)
  • Defining which macroecological rules are universal across the tree of life will allow for ecosystem-wide development of theory of common mechanisms affecting community assembly, response to global change, and recovery from human-induced disturbance. (frontiersin.org)
  • Our approach resolves some of the previous debates about whether the record of fossils in the rocks is good enough to provide a clear pattern of biodiversity change through deep time", explained co-author Prof Michael Benton of the University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences . (eurekalert.org)
  • We illustrate that process by presenting a Flavivirus phylogeny case study for ZIKV and its taxonomic relatives, asking within this framework, which animals might serve as reservoirs for ZIKV. (springer.com)
  • Another part of the explanation is the interaction between geological processes at the formation of the mountains and the complex ways in which the climate changes both locally and throughout time. (dg.dk)
  • These results indicate that geological events such as the Indo-Asian Collision, the TP uplift, and the aridification of the Asian interior underpinned the evolutionary history of the zoogeographical regions surrounding the TP over different time periods. (nature.com)
  • Long-term patterns in biodiversity were assessed by compiling the first and last occurrence of every animal genus in the marine-fossil record, revealing that biodiversity increased exponentially through time (or exhibited a logistic increase). (groms.de)
  • Up to now, understanding of the global-scale history of biodiversity and origins of modern biodiversity have depended on the fossil record, which proves that life on our planet has been hit by at least five great mass extinctions over the last half billion years. (eurekalert.org)
  • Gridded environmental data and species richness maps have been used in increasingly sophisticated curve-fitting analyses, but these methods have not brought us much closer to a mechanistic understanding of the patterns. (edu.au)
  • However, when microorganisms and macroorganisms shared the same macroecological patterns, underlying environmental drivers (e.g., temperature) were the same. (frontiersin.org)
  • The aim of this project is to study how biodiversity (e.g. phylobetadiversity) is generated and maintained by interacting ecological and evolutionary assembly processes along environmental gradients. (lu.se)
  • In particular, we are focussing on quantitative temperature and hydroclimate reconstructions, and reconstructions of large-scale modes of climate variability from local to global scales. (copernicus.org)
  • Most of my research is theoretical in nature and I use eco-evolutionary simulation models to study how assembly processes across spatiotemporal scales affect community patterns. (lu.se)
  • I use simulations to understand evolutionary processes and make inferences from data (using approximate Bayesian computation). (peercommunityin.org)
  • We expected the number of species to be more reliant on spatial patterns of larger landscapes than relative abundance, especially when considering larger bodied species, and connectivity-related landscape variables. (researchsquare.com)
  • These units are distinguished by patterns of native fish distribution resulting from large-scale geoclimatic processes and evolutionary history. (sciencebase.gov)
  • Within individual ecoregions there will be turnover of species, such as when moving up or down a river system, but taken as a whole an ecoregion will typically have a distinct evolutionary history and/or suite of ecological processes (Abell et al. (sciencebase.gov)
  • However, the evolutionary history of these regions in deep time is poorly understood. (nature.com)
  • Butterfly retinal mosaics are highly anisotropic (regionalized), species- and sex-specific, indicating their remarkable evolutionary plasticity and tuning under the selective pressures exerted by the various visual environments of different species. (bob2023.cz)
  • Introduction of this pathogen to North America could be devastating, not only to local populations but also to global salamander biodiversity. (usgs.gov)
  • I am an ecologist interested in exploring the macro processes that shape the global species' distribution by using GIS tools, WebGIS technologies, ecological modelling, and remote sensing. (szn.it)
  • Phylogeny explained most of the variation in root traits, and a PCA revealed distinct nested patterns of nativity and AMF inoculation. (syr.edu)
  • Location: Global in marine and freshwater environments. (umn.edu)
  • Modern ocean biodiversity, which is at its highest level ever, was achieved through long-term stability of the location of so-called biodiversity hotspots, regions of especially high numbers of species, scientists have found. (eurekalert.org)