The state of the world's insects

P Eggleton - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2020 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the present state of insects, describing their taxonomic position, cost,
and value as well as the threats to their well-being. Insects are an important source of both …

Trait‐based ecology of terrestrial arthropods

MKL Wong, B Guénard, OT Lewis - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In focusing on how organisms' generalizable functional properties (traits) interact
mechanistically with environments across spatial scales and levels of biological …

[HTML][HTML] A conceptual guide to measuring species diversity

M Roswell, J Dushoff, R Winfree - Oikos, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Three metrics of species diversity–species richness, the Shannon index and the Simpson
index–are still widely used in ecology, despite decades of valid critiques leveled against …

Structural variability and niche differentiation in the rhizosphere and endosphere bacterial microbiome of field-grown poplar trees

B Beckers, M Op De Beeck, N Weyens, W Boerjan… - Microbiome, 2017 - Springer
Background The plant microbiome represents one of the key determinants of plant health
and productivity by providing a plethora of functional capacities such as access to low …

Coverage‐based rarefaction and extrapolation: standardizing samples by completeness rather than size

A Chao, L Jost - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We propose an integrated sampling, rarefaction, and extrapolation methodology to compare
species richness of a set of communities based on samples of equal completeness (as …

Arthropod diversity in a tropical forest

Y Basset, L Cizek, P Cuénoud, RK Didham… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Most eukaryotic organisms are arthropods. Yet, their diversity in rich terrestrial ecosystems is
still unknown. Here we produce tangible estimates of the total species richness of …

BAT–Biodiversity Assessment Tools, an R package for the measurement and estimation of alpha and beta taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity

P Cardoso, F Rigal, JC Carvalho - Methods in Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Novel algorithms have been recently developed to estimate alpha and partition beta
diversity in all their dimensions (taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity–TD, PD and …

Sampling networks of ecological interactions

P Jordano - Functional ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Sampling ecological interactions presents similar challenges, problems, potential biases
and constraints as sampling individuals and species in biodiversity inventories. Robust …

Global patterns of guild composition and functional diversity of spiders

P Cardoso, S Pekár, R Jocqué, JA Coddington - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The objectives of this work are:(1) to define spider guilds for all extant families worldwide;(2)
test if guilds defined at family level are good surrogates of species guilds;(3) compare the …

Global patterns of bacterial beta-diversity in seafloor and seawater ecosystems

L Zinger, LA Amaral-Zettler, JA Fuhrman… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Marine microbial communities have been essential contributors to global
biomass, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity since the early history of Earth, but so far their …