In an era of human activities, global environmental changes, habitat loss and species
extinction, conservation strategies are a crucial step toward minimizing biodiversity loss. For …

Because biodiversity is multidimensional and scale‐dependent, it is challenging to estimate
its change. However, it is unclear (1) how much scale‐dependence matters for empirical …

Hill numbers (or the effective number of species) have been increasingly used to quantify
the species/taxonomic diversity of an assemblage. The sample‐size‐and coverage‐based …

On the basis of the sampling data from an assemblage, estimation of species richness
(observed plus undetected) is statistically difficult especially for highly-diverse assemblages …

Soil microbial functional genes are linked with carbon (C) as well as nitrogen (N) cycling
processes, and their relative abundances are strongly affected by ecosystem managements …

We present PhyloMeasures, a new software package including both a C++ and R version,
that provides very fast computation of popular phylogenetic diversity measures …

Species richness (the number of species) in an assemblage is a key metric in many
research fields of ecology. Simple counts of species in samples typically underestimate the …

Generalist species able to exploit anthropogenic food sources are becoming increasingly
common in urban environments. Coyotes (Canis latrans) are one such urban generalist that …

Habitat conversion is driving biodiversity loss and restructuring species assemblages across
the globe. Responses to habitat conversion vary widely, however, and little is known about …

Estimating and comparing microbial diversity are statistically challenging due to limited
sampling and possible sequencing errors for low-frequency counts, producing spurious …