While most research on the relationship between ecosystem diversity and stability has focused on species richness, it is variation in species composition that provides the mechanistic basis to ...

A study published in People and Nature finds that both sight and sound influence perception of biodiversity, and participants ...

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 ...

"However, maintaining biodiversity is worthwhile, as the richness of plant species did reduce the number of viral infections in the meadows - regardless of location," Susi says.

Such observations underestimated species frequency and could indicate that a species is rare when it is not. Species accumulation models fitted to ground-based data failed to predict species richness ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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