Participants can accurately recognize levels of biodiversity through sight and sound, and aspects like color, light, as well ...

Species diversity has two primary components: species richness (the number of species in a local community) and species composition (the identity of the species present in a community). While most ...

Planet Earth may contain millions fewer species than previously thought and estimates are converging, according to research. A new paper reveals findings that narrow global species estimates for ...

Loss of habitat causes double damage to species richness Date: April 2, 2019 Source: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Summary: Loss and fragmentation ...

Evenness is a measure of the equality or distribution of individuals, in our examples bottles, among species, here kinds of beer. In our example, I had 6 of each and thus high evenness before the ...

Environmental DNA sampling in Pacific and Atlantic coastal waters revealed an unseen "species richness" — detecting twice as many fish species as a traditional net survey, according to a new ...

"If ectomycorrhizae are abundant, that is good news for trees because they suppress root pathogens, but counterintuitively, ...

Losses of local species richness exceeding 20 percent are likely to substantially impair the contribution of biodiversity to ecosystem function and services, and thus to human well-being.” ...

The estimates range from 0.5 million to 10 million and are often logically inconsistent, the authors of that 2014 study wrote: "For example, estimates of species richness for coral reefs have ...

Terrestrial plants have developed strategies to cope with suboptimal conditions. Storage of nonstructural resources is one of ...