Functional diversity (FD)
Extinction and the loss of functional diversity
... that functional groups exist. Using a continuous measure of functional diversity (FD) derived from the quantitative functional traits of species, we show that the loss of functional ...
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Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably
... high functional diversity ...phylogenetic diversity (PD) should indirectly capture FD, a hypothesis that we name the “ phylogenetic gambit ” ...
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Functional diversity of restinga shrub species on the coastal plain of southern brazil
... high diversity of species in the communities with the exception of C1 and C3, which were moderately diverse for stem ...The functional diversity (FD), based on leaf and stem attributes, showed low ...
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Structural and Functional Diversity of Nairovirus-Encoded Nucleoproteins
... The nairoviruses include assorted tick-borne bunyaviruses that are emerging as causative agents of infectious diseases among humans and animals. As negative-sense single-stranded RNA ( ⴚ ssRNA) viruses, nairoviruses ...
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Plant functional diversity affects climate–vegetation interaction
... PFT diversity rather than the potential PFT diversity as the decisive factor for climate–vegetation feedback strength, vegetation extent, and the timing and rate of transition from the green Sahara to the ...
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Effects of Bacillus subtilis CSL2 on the composition and functional diversity of the faecal microbiota of broiler chickens challenged with Salmonella Gallinarum
... microbial diversity and composition by increas- ing the abundance of beneficial ...the diversity, composition, and functional diversity of the faecal ...
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Functional diversity in Dichomitus squalens monokaryons
... In this study, we aimed to dissect the variations in % ' rot basidiomycete Dichomitus squalens +z U z z =*$# on softwood, but is also able to grow and degrade hardwood (Blanchette et al. 1987, Fackler et al. 2007). ...
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The functional diversity of Aurora kinases: a comprehensive review
... the functional interplay of Aurora kinases in various types of human cells, including tumor ...the functional diversity of Aurora kinases could help to evaluate their relevance as potential ...
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Functional diversity of microorganisms in metal- and alkali-contaminated soils of Central and North-eastern Slovakia
... the functional diversity of microorganisms and physical soil parameters, chemical soil parameters, and heavy ...index diversity (R = ...index diversity (P < ...index diversity- Hg (P ...
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PhytoSFDM version 1.0.0: Phytoplankton Size and Functional Diversity Model
... tional Diversity Model (called PhytoSFDM) that allows for five different ways of describing the size composition of phy- toplankton communities in the upper mixed layers of the world ...
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Functional diversity in vascular endothelial cells: role in coxsackievirus tropism.
... Heart virus isolates which preferentially react to heart-derived VEC in vitro also showed greater infectivity for the heart in vivo, suggesting that the VEC from which virus is isolated [r] ...
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Functional diversity and mechanisms of action of the semaphorins
... Regulating responsiveness at the receptor level Fanny Mann (Development Biology Institute of Marseille, Luminy, France) reported on the divergent cellular responses evoked by Sema3E (see Fig. 2 for more on semaphorin ...
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Functional Diversity of Silencers in Budding Yeasts
... We studied the silencing of the cryptic mating-type loci HML ␣ and HMRa in the budding yeast Kluyveromyces lactis. A 102-bp minimal silencer fragment was defined that was both necessary and sufficient for silencing of ...
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Extensive microbial and functional diversity within the chicken cecal microbiome
... Previous culture-based studies have established that, as in other vertebrates, the phylums Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes predominated in the chicken cecal microbiota [20–22]. Attempts at culture- independent phylogenetic ...
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Effects of land use on wild bee functional diversity
... Wild bee abundance and species richness was significantly negatively impacted by the presence of grazing. We found that grazed landscapes had bee communities that were eight-fold less abundant and about half as rich than ...
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Functional diversity in the color vision of cichlid fishes
... their diversity in male nuptial color patterns, sexual dimorph- ism in color patterns and visual communication pro- cesses governing mate choice ...large-scale diversity in cichlid visual systems and ...
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Functional diversity of E1A gene autoregulation among human adenoviruses.
... It is plausible that the conserved functional domains of the adenovirus ElA gene, associated with positive and negative regulation of the transcription of other early viral and cellular [r] ...
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Calreticulins- Calcium-binding proteins with functional diversity and evolutionary duality
... Although Crt is present in almost all higher eukaryotic organisms, functional characterizations have mainly focused on the animal field (Crofts and Denecke, 1998; Michalak et al., 1999). In animal cells, Crt is ...
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The functional diversity and redundancy of corals
... response diversity, and favoured taxa with smaller, shorter and simpler morphologies, with moderate-to-fast growth rates, and ‘weedy’ life histories, such as high size-specific fecundity (Hall and Hughes 1996), ...
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Functional diversity of jasmonates in rice
... In rice, exogenous applications of MeJA on young seedlings retard the growth of roots and shoots. The lowest concentration of MeJA for the inhibition of rice seedling growth is 0.9 μM (Tsai et al. 1997) and 50% ...
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