Cross-taxa congruence, indicators and environmental gradients in soils under agricultural and extensive land management

AM Keith, B Boots, C Hazard, R Niechoj… - European Journal of Soil …, 2012 - Elsevier
Important steps in developing reliable bioindicators for soil quality are characterising soil
biodiversity and determining the response of its components to environmental factors across …

An approach to identifying potential surrogates of periphytic ciliate communities for monitoring water quality of coastal waters

H Xu, W Zhang, Y Jiang, GS Min, JK Choi - Ecological Indicators, 2011 - Elsevier
For identifying the potential surrogate of periphytic ciliate communities for monitoring marine
water quality, the different taxonomic resolutions/taxa as surrogates and different data …

Uniquity: A general metric for biotic uniqueness of sites

R Ejrnæs, TG Frøslev, TT Høye, R Kjøller… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Species richness is unrivalled as the most reported biodiversity metric in ecological and
conservation research. Unfortunately, species richness ignores the scale-dependency of …

[HTML][HTML] Taxonomic and numerical resolutions of Nepomorpha (Insecta: Heteroptera) in cerrado streams

NFS Giehl, K Dias-Silva, L Juen, JD Batista… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Transformations of natural landscapes and their biodiversity have become increasingly
dramatic and intense, creating a demand for rapid and inexpensive methods to assess and …

Assessing biodiversity and endemism using phylogenetic methods across multiple taxonomic groups

CE González‐Orozco, BD Mishler, JT Miller… - Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying geographical areas with the greatest representation of the tree of life is an
important goal for the management and conservation of biodiversity. While there are …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-Taxon Congruence of Taxonomic and Functional Beta-Diversity Facets Across Spatial and Temporal Scales

FM Lansac-Tôha, J Heino, LM Bini, O Peláez… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
An intensively debated issue in ecology is whether the variations in the biodiversity patterns
of different biological groups are congruent in space and time. In addition, ecologists have …

Effectiveness of genera as a higher-taxon substitute for species in ant biodiversity analyses is not affected by sampling technique

JLP Souza, FB Baccaro, PACL Pequeno… - Biodiversity and …, 2018 - Springer
Survey costs and a lack of taxonomists are often the main impediments to biodiversity
inventories. The use of a higher-taxon approach that is efficient in representing species …

Consistency of effects of tropical‐forest disturbance on species composition and richness relative to use of indicator taxa

NE Stork, DS Srivastava, P Eggleton… - Conservation …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Lawton et al.(1998) found, in a highly cited study, that the species richness of 8 taxa
each responds differently to anthropogenic disturbance in Cameroon forests. Recent …

Taking shortcuts to measure species diversity: parasitoid Hymenoptera subfamilies as surrogates of species richness

M Mazón - Biodiversity and conservation, 2016 - Springer
When trying to assess entomological diversity, identifying taxa at levels higher than species
is much easier and may provide a wider vision of other ecological features. In this work, we …

Cross-taxonomic surrogates for biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes–A multi-taxa approach

DL Yong, PS Barton, K Ikin, MJ Evans, M Crane… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Cross-taxonomic surrogates are often used in conservation planning because inventorying
large suites of taxa is either not feasible or too costly. However, cross-taxonomic surrogates …