The present two‐part review aims to put the different phenomena that have been called
“beta diversity” over the years into a common conceptual framework and to explain what …

Abstract Background Pan-bacterial 16S rRNA microbiome surveys performed with massively
parallel DNA sequencing technologies have transformed community microbiological …

Collembola are among the most abundant, diverse and functionally important groups of soil
animals. Collembolans inhabit different litter and soil layers and their food objects are …

Beta diversity is an important component of biological diversity, measuring compositional
change in species assemblages across temporal and spatial scales. Beta diversity concerns …

The study of biodiversity has tended to focus primarily on relatively information‐poor
measures of species diversity. Recently, many studies of local diversity (alpha diversity) …

China covers a vast territory harbouring a large number of aquatic plants. Although there are
many studies on the β-diversity of total, herbaceous or woody plants in China and …

Beta 多样性度量时空尺度上物种组成的变化, 是生物多样性的重要组成部分,
与许多生态学和进化生物学问题密切相关, 并且其信息可用于保护区选址和布局规划 …

Taxonomic sufficiency, or the suitability of substituting higher level taxonomic designations
as response variables in community ecology analyses, is important in biodiversity studies …

Accurate quantification of biodiversity can be demanding and expensive. Although
environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding can facilitate biodiversity assessments through …

It is typically at the species level where the responses of organisms to natural environmental
gradients are the most clearly visible. However, due to the fact that many organismal groups …