Alpha diversity
Articles
... species diversity loss can result in vari- ous ecological, evolutionary and socioeconomic impacts, a robust understanding of the consequences of biotic homogenisation is still conspicuously lacking (Olden et ...
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Microorganism-regulated mechanisms of temperature effects on the performance of anaerobic digestion
... structure, diversity and activity, reaction rate and inhi- bition ...increased diversity with tem- perature might provide more functional redundancy with access to the total functional diversity and ...
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Interactions of Respiratory Viruses and the Nasal Microbiota during the First Year of Life in Healthy Infants
... in alpha diversity (SDI, ...Beta diversity, calculated by using nMDS, did not reach statistical significance, but trends were consistent (Jaccard, P ⫽ ...
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Characterization of the total and viable bacterial and fungal communities associated with the International Space Station surfaces
... microbial diversity (alpha diversity) than F1 and F3 samples; only Enterobacteriaceae were cultured from F3 samples and nine out of the ten most relatively abundant family level taxa differed over ...
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Organic, integrated and conventional management in apple orchards: effect on plant species composition, richness and diversity
... The survey was carried out in three triads of selected apple orchards in the Czech Republic in 2009. The orchards were situated in Moravia and in Central and Eastern Bohemia. In each Bohemian region one conventional, one ...
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Evolution of gut microbiota composition from birth to 24 weeks in the INFANTMET Cohort
... PT infants not subjected to the environmental and anti- biotic exposures detailed above still had an atypical micro- biota profile in early life, such a prospective study would be very difficult to perform because these ...
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Increasing flooding frequency alters soil microbial communities and functions under laboratory conditions.
... The impacts of increased flooding frequency on soil microbial communities and potential functions, in line with predicted environmental changes, were investigated in a laboratory- controlled environment. More frequent ...
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Microbiota profile in new-onset pediatric Crohn’s disease: data from a non-Western population
... Paludibacter. Alpha diversity was significantly reduced in stool (p = ...Beta diversity showed significant difference in community composition between control and CD samples (p = ...
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Microbial indicators of environmental perturbations in coral reef ecosystems
... Furthermore, additional supplementary figures are illustrating alpha diversity measures of microbial communities associated with the distinct coral reef habitats ( Figure S1 ), within an[r] ...
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Apple endophytic microbiota of different rootstock/scion combinations suggests a genotype-specific influence
... calculate alpha diversity indices including observed species (Sobs), Chao1, and Shannon ...[39]. Alpha diversities were compared based on a two- sample t test using non-parametric (Monte Carlo) ...
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Concurrent measurement of microbiome and allergens in the air of bedrooms of allergy disease patients in the Chicago area
... bacterial alpha diversity (Table 1), and linear regres- sions generated from Spearman’s rank correlations for alpha diversity metrics against dog allergen loads dem- onstrate a significant ...
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Protist communities are more sensitive to nitrogen fertilization than other microorganisms in diverse agricultural soils
... Additional file 1: Figure S1. Relative abundance of taxonomic composition of soil bacterial (A), fungal (B), and protist (C) community at phylum level, at class level, and at phylum level, respectively. Figure S2. LEfSe ...
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Decreased microbiome diversity in the HIV small airway epithelium
... Because there was no difference in alpha diversity between the COPD+ and COPD- groups, beta diversity analysis was restricted to comparing the study cohort by HIV status. Using non-metric ...
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Anoxygenic Phototrophs Span Geochemical Gradients and Diverse Morphologies in Terrestrial Geothermal Springs
... of alpha diversity, each sample was rarefied to a depth of 6,345 (the total reads from the SSA2 site; ...the diversity. Alpha diversity metrics were calculated using RTK ...
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Altered Bacterial-Fungal Interkingdom Networks in the Guts of Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients
... reduced alpha diversity was observed in treatment- naive AS patients compared with the healthy controls, especially when evaluated by Shannon and Simpson indexes ...and alpha diversity ...
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Influence of the Intestinal Microbiota on Colonization Resistance to Salmonella and the Shedding Pattern of Naturally Exposed Pigs
... Statistical analysis. Statistical analyses were performed in R v3.4.2. Microbiota and study variables (shedding pattern, shedding group, serology, infection status, pen, and sampling time point) were included in the ...
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Influence of pig gut microbiota on Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae susceptibility
... datasets. Diversity indices were calculated on the entire 16S rRNA gene sequence data for all sam- ples ...The alpha diversity, or the diversity of fecal microbiota within litters, was ...
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Prokaryotic Diversity in Mangrove Sediments across Southeastern China Fundamentally Differs from That in Other Biomes
... An important conclusion drawn from our large-scale analysis of the results of 1,448 sediment samples around the globe was that microbial alpha diversity was significantly higher in mangroves than in other ...
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AdamsMardi_unc_0153M_18571.pdf
... Shannon alpha diversity and richness was tested for BMI, IgG ELISA, HAI, and T cell flow cytometry ...Shannon alpha diversity, a Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to generate a ...
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Trade‐offs for butterfly alpha and beta diversity in human‐modified landscapes and tropical rainforests
... of alpha diversity, we computed beta diversity across the respective land uses and localities to ascertain the extent of change in community composition or species identi‐ ...beta diversity, ...
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