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Zhang J, Xiao C, Duan X, Gao X, Zeng H, Dong R, Feng G, Ma K. Species' geographical range, environmental range and traits lead to specimen collection preference of dominant plant species of grasslands in Northern China. PLANT DIVERSITY 2024; 46:353-361. [PMID: 38798734 PMCID: PMC11119519 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2024.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Revised: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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Many different factors, such as species traits, socio-economic factors, geographical and environmental factors, can lead to specimen collection preference. This study aims to determine whether grassland specimen collection in China is preferred by species traits (i.e., plant height, flowering and fruiting period), environmental range (i.e., the temperature and precipitation range) and geographical range (i.e., distribution range and altitudinal range). Ordinary least squares models and phylogenetic generalized linear mixed models were used to analyze the relationships between specimen number and the explanatory variables. Random Forest models were then used to find the most parsimonious multivariate model. The results showed that interannual variation in specimen number between 1900 and 2020 was considerable. Specimen number of these species in southeast China was notably lower than that in northwest China. Environmental range and geographical range of species had significant positive correlations with specimen number. In addition, there were relatively weak but significant associations between specimen number and species trait (i.e., plant height and flowering and fruiting period). Random Forest models indicated that distribution range was the most important variable, followed by flowering and fruiting period, and altitudinal range. These findings suggest that future floristic surveys should pay more attention to species with small geographical range, narrow environmental range, short plant height, and short flowering and fruiting period. The correction of specimen collection preference will also make the results of species distribution model, species evolution and other works based on specimen data more accurate.
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- Jingya Zhang
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Ecology and Resource Use of the Mongolian Plateau & Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Ecology and Resource Use of the Mongolian Plateau & Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Ecology and Resource Use of the Mongolian Plateau & Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Ecology and Resource Use of the Mongolian Plateau & Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Ecology and Resource Use of the Mongolian Plateau & Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Ecology and Resource Use of the Mongolian Plateau & Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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Belhaj A, Pallarés S, Bennas N, Chergui B, Sánchez-Fernández D. Towards the identification of hotspots of freshwater biodiversity in North-Western Africa: A case study using species distribution models for water beetles in Morocco. Glob Ecol Conserv 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/29/2023] Open
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Zhao Z, Feng X, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Zhou Z. Species diversity, hotspot congruence, and conservation of North American damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera). Front Ecol Evol 2023. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1087866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The rapid extinction of species is of considerable concern for biodiversity conservation. Identifying the drivers of species diversity and hotspots is beneficial for developing conservation strategies. Studies on insects have mainly focused on terrestrial species and rarely on semiaquatic species. Using 135,208 georeferenced occurrence records of 296 damselflies across North America, their species richness and endemism (represented by weighted endemism) patterns were mapped in a 100 × 100-km grid size, and the effects of environmental variables on species richness and endemism were investigated using generalized linear models and hierarchical partitioning. Subsequently, the top 5% grids with species richness and weighted endemism were separately selected as hotspots and their congruence was evaluated. Finally, species diversity hotspots were identified by integrating two types of hotspot grids, and gap analysis was performed to evaluate their conservation status. Temperature conditions and water availability had the strongest influence on species richness and endemism, respectively. Low congruence among species richness and endemism hotspots was observed. Moreover, four species diversity hotspots were identified, namely, region of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, southwestern United States, central Mexico, and southernmost North America. Approximately 69.31% of the hotspot grids are not a part of the existing protected areas, presenting a significant conservation gap. The habitats of taxonomic groups should be considered while identifying the most common driving mechanisms of endemism. Strengthening the establishment of protected areas in regions with conservation gaps is urgently needed to promote the conservation of damselflies in North America.
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The Patterns and Causes of Dermatitis in Terrestrial and Semi-Aquatic Mammalian Wildlife. Animals (Basel) 2021; 11:ani11061691. [PMID: 34204062 PMCID: PMC8228222 DOI: 10.3390/ani11061691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Causative disease and stress agents which manifest as dermatitis in mammals have varying effects on individual animals, from benign irritation and inflammation, to causing morbidity and even mortality. Bacteria, viruses and ectoparasites are all potential causes of dermatitis, and it can be exacerbated by various environmental, genetic and social factors. Furthermore, it is uncertain whether dermatitis is more likely to manifest in already-vulnerable wildlife species. Here, we systematically review the literature for reports of dermatitis in terrestrial and semi-aquatic wild mammalian species, with the goal of determining the biogeographical scale of dermatitis reports, the causes of dermatitis, and whether manifestation of dermatitis is reported more commonly in certain wildlife species or their captivity status (i.e., free-living, in captivity or in a laboratory). We reveal biases in the reporting of dermatitis by a biogeographic realm, with 55% of cases reported in the Nearctic, and towards particular orders of mammals, namely Artiodactyla and Carnivora. Overall, free-living wildlife is almost twice as likely to be reported as having dermatitis than individuals in captivity and six times more likely than individuals in laboratories, which we interpret as owing to exposure to a broader spectrum of parasites in free-ranging individuals, and potential reporting bias in captive individuals. Notably, dermatitis was reported in 23 threatened species, with some species more likely than others to be reported exhibiting clinical signs of dermatitis resulting from underlying health problems. We also find that threatened species are more likely to be reported as having dermatitis in captivity, particularly outside of their endemic home range. This review highlights diverse patterns of dermatological disease causes in captive and free-ranging wildlife, conditions under which they are more likely to be documented, and the need for cross-disciplinary research to ascertain (and so better manage) the varied causes.
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Almeida TC, Tessarolo G, Nabout JC, Teresa FB. Non‐stationary drivers on fish sampling efforts in Brazilian freshwaters. DIVERS DISTRIB 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Zamora-Marín JM, Ilg C, Demierre E, Bonnet N, Wezel A, Robin J, Vallod D, Calvo JF, Oliva-Paterna FJ, Oertli B. Contribution of artificial waterbodies to biodiversity: A glass half empty or half full? THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 753:141987. [PMID: 32911169 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Revised: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Artificial ponds are increasingly created for the services they provide to humans. While they have the potential to offer habitats for freshwater biodiversity, their contribution to regional diversity has hardly been quantified. In this study, we assess the relative contribution of five types of artificial ponds to regional biodiversity of five different regions, studying amphibians, water beetles and freshwater snails. This biodiversity is also compared with that observed in natural ponds from three of the investigated regions. Our results indicate that artificial ponds host, on average, about 50% of the regional pool of lentic species. When compared to natural ponds, the artificial ponds always supported a substantially lower alpha richness (54% of the natural pond richness). The invertebrate communities presented high values of beta diversity and were represented by a restricted set of widely distributed species, and by numerous rare species. There were discrepancies among the taxonomic groups: overall, amphibians benefited most from the presence of artificial ponds, since 65% of the regional lentic species pools for this group was found in artificial ponds, whereas 43% and 42% was observed in the case of beetles and snails, respectively. However, each invertebrate group was promptly the most benefited animal group in a single pond type. Therefore, artificial pond types were complementary among them in terms of contribution to regional diversity of the three animal groups. Based on these results, we forecast that future human-dominated landscapes in which most ponds are artificial will be particularly impoverished in terms of freshwater biodiversity, underlining the need to conserve existing natural ponds and to create new "near-natural" ponds. However, if properly designed and managed, artificial ponds could make a substantial contribution to support freshwater biodiversity at a regional scale. Furthermore, the number and diversity of artificial ponds must be high in each considered landscape.
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- Jose Manuel Zamora-Marín
- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
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- VSA, Swiss Water Association, Center of Competence for Surface Water Quality, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, HEPIA, 1254 Jussy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, HEPIA, 1254 Jussy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- ISARA, AgroSchool for Life, Agroecology and Environment Research Unit, 23 Rue Jean Baldassini, 69364 Lyon, France
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- ISARA, AgroSchool for Life, Agroecology and Environment Research Unit, 23 Rue Jean Baldassini, 69364 Lyon, France
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- ISARA, AgroSchool for Life, Agroecology and Environment Research Unit, 23 Rue Jean Baldassini, 69364 Lyon, France
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- Department of Ecology and Hydrology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, HEPIA, 1254 Jussy, Geneva, Switzerland
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Farooq H, Azevedo JAR, Soares A, Antonelli A, Faurby S. Mapping Africa's Biodiversity: More of the Same Is Just Not Good Enough. Syst Biol 2020; 70:623-633. [PMID: 33306123 PMCID: PMC8048386 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2020] [Revised: 11/14/2020] [Accepted: 11/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Species distribution data are fundamental to the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes. Yet, such data are strongly affected by sampling biases, mostly related to site accessibility. The understanding of these biases is therefore crucial in systematics, biogeography, and conservation. Here we present a novel approach for quantifying sampling effort and its impact on biodiversity knowledge, focusing on Africa. In contrast to previous studies assessing sampling completeness (percentage of species recorded in relation to predicted), we investigate whether the lack of knowledge of a site attracts scientists to visit these areas and collect samples of species. We then estimate the time required to sample 90% of the continent under a Weibull distributed biodiversity sampling rate and the number of sampling events required to record $ \ge $50% of the species. Using linear and spatial regression models, we show that previous sampling has been strongly influencing the resampling of areas, attracting repeated visits. This bias has existed for over two centuries, has increased in recent decades, and is most pronounced among mammals. It may take between 172 and 274 years, depending on the group, to achieve at least one sampling event per grid cell in the entire continent. Just one visit will, however, not be enough: in order to record $ \ge $50% of the current diversity, it will require at least 12 sampling events for amphibians, 13 for mammals, and 27 for birds. Our results demonstrate the importance of sampling areas that lack primary biodiversity data and the urgency with which this needs to be done. Current practice is insufficient to adequately classify and map African biodiversity; it can lead to incorrect conclusions being drawn from biogeographic analyses and can result in misleading and self-reinforcing conservation priorities. [Amphibians; birds; mammals; sampling bias; sampling gaps; Wallacean shortfall.].
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- Harith Farooq
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden1.,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.,Departamento de Biologia e CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.,Faculty of Natural Sciences at Lúrio University, Campus universitário da Universidade Lúrio, Bairro Eduardo Mondlane, 3200, Pemba, Cabo Delgado, Moçambique
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- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden1.,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.,Coordenação de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Caixa Postal 2223, CEP 69008-971, Manaus, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia e CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden1.,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden.,Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, U.K
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- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden1.,Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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Zamora‐Gutierrez V, Amano T, Jones KE. Spatial and taxonomic biases in bat records: Drivers and conservation implications in a megadiverse country. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:14130-14141. [PMID: 31938508 PMCID: PMC6953659 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Biases in data availability have serious consequences on scientific inferences that can be derived. The potential consequences of these biases could be more detrimental in the less-studied megadiverse regions, often characterized by high biodiversity and serious risks of human threats, as conservation and management actions could be misdirected. Here, focusing on 134 bat species in Mexico, we analyze spatial and taxonomic biases and their drivers in occurrence data; and identify priority areas for further data collection which are currently under-sampled or at future environmental risk. We collated a comprehensive database of 26,192 presence-only bat records in Mexico to characterize taxonomic and spatial biases and relate them to species' characteristics (range size and foraging behavior). Next, we examined variables related to accessibility, species richness and security to explain the spatial patterns in occurrence records. Finally, we compared the spatial distributions of existing data and future threats to these species to highlight those regions that are likely to experience an increased level of threats but are currently under-surveyed. We found taxonomic biases, where species with wider geographical ranges and narrow-space foragers (species easily captured with traditional methods), had more occurrence data. There was a significant oversampling toward tropical regions, and the presence and number of records was positively associated with areas of high topographic heterogeneity, road density, urban, and protected areas, and negatively associated with areas which were predicted to have future increases in temperature and precipitation. Sampling efforts for Mexican bats appear to have focused disproportionately on easily captured species, tropical regions, areas of high species richness and security; leading to under-sampling in areas of high future threats. These biases could substantially influence the assessment of current status of, and future anthropogenic impacts on, this diverse species group in a tropical megadiverse country.
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- Veronica Zamora‐Gutierrez
- CONACYT – Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional (CIIDIR) Unidad DurangoInstituto Politécnico NacionalDurangoMexico
- Conservation Science GroupDepartment of ZoologyUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentCentre for Biodiversity and Environment ResearchUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Conservation Science GroupDepartment of ZoologyUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
- Centre for the Study of Existential RiskUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneQldAustralia
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentCentre for Biodiversity and Environment ResearchUniversity College LondonLondonUK
- Institute of ZoologyZoological Society of LondonLondonUK
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Ball-Damerow JE, Brenskelle L, Barve N, Soltis PS, Sierwald P, Bieler R, LaFrance R, Ariño AH, Guralnick RP. Research applications of primary biodiversity databases in the digital age. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0215794. [PMID: 31509534 PMCID: PMC6738577 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Our world is in the midst of unprecedented change-climate shifts and sustained, widespread habitat degradation have led to dramatic declines in biodiversity rivaling historical extinction events. At the same time, new approaches to publishing and integrating previously disconnected data resources promise to help provide the evidence needed for more efficient and effective conservation and management. Stakeholders have invested considerable resources to contribute to online databases of species occurrences. However, estimates suggest that only 10% of biocollections are available in digital form. The biocollections community must therefore continue to promote digitization efforts, which in part requires demonstrating compelling applications of the data. Our overarching goal is therefore to determine trends in use of mobilized species occurrence data since 2010, as online systems have grown and now provide over one billion records. To do this, we characterized 501 papers that use openly accessible biodiversity databases. Our standardized tagging protocol was based on key topics of interest, including: database(s) used, taxa addressed, general uses of data, other data types linked to species occurrence data, and data quality issues addressed. We found that the most common uses of online biodiversity databases have been to estimate species distribution and richness, to outline data compilation and publication, and to assist in developing species checklists or describing new species. Only 69% of papers in our dataset addressed one or more aspects of data quality, which is low considering common errors and biases known to exist in opportunistic datasets. Globally, we find that biodiversity databases are still in the initial stages of data compilation. Novel and integrative applications are restricted to certain taxonomic groups and regions with higher numbers of quality records. Continued data digitization, publication, enhancement, and quality control efforts are necessary to make biodiversity science more efficient and relevant in our fast-changing environment.
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
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- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America
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Bilton DT, Ribera I, Short AEZ. Water Beetles as Models in Ecology and Evolution. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY 2019; 64:359-377. [PMID: 30629892 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-011118-111829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Beetles have colonized water many times during their history, with some of these events involving extensive evolutionary radiations and multiple transitions between land and water. With over 13,000 described species, they are one of the most diverse macroinvertebrate groups in most nonmarine aquatic habitats and occur on all continents except Antarctica. A combination of wide geographical and ecological range and relatively accessible taxonomy makes these insects an excellent model system for addressing a variety of questions in ecology and evolution. Work on water beetles has recently made important contributions to fields as diverse as DNA taxonomy, macroecology, historical biogeography, sexual selection, and conservation biology, as well as predicting organismal responses to global change. Aquatic beetles have some of the best resolved phylogenies of any comparably diverse insect group, and this, coupled with recent advances in taxonomic and ecological knowledge, is likely to drive an expansion of studies in the future.
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- David T Bilton
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom;
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Pompeu Fabra University), 08003 Barcelona, Spain;
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; and Division of Entomology, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA;
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Fontaneto D. Long-distance passive dispersal in microscopic aquatic animals. MOVEMENT ECOLOGY 2019; 7:10. [PMID: 30962931 PMCID: PMC6434837 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-019-0155-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Given their dormancy capability (long-term resistant stages) and their ability to colonise and reproduce, microscopic aquatic animals have been suggested having cosmopolitan distribution. Their dormant stages may be continuously moved by mobile elements through the entire planet to any suitable habitat, preventing the formation of biogeographical patterns. In this review, I will go through the evidence we have on the most common microscopic aquatic animals, namely nematodes, rotifers, and tardigrades, for each of the assumptions allowing long-distance dispersal (dormancy, viability, and reproduction) and all the evidence we have for transportation, directly from surveys of dispersing stages, and indirectly from the outcome of successful dispersal in biogeographical and phylogeographical studies. The current knowledge reveals biogeographical patterns also for microscopic organisms, with species-specific differences in ecological features that make some taxa indeed cosmopolitan with the potential for long-distance dispersal, but others with restricted geographic distributions.
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- Diego Fontaneto
- National Research Council of Italy, Water Research Institute, Largo Tonolli 50, 28922 Verbania Pallanza, Italy
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Peoples BK, Midway SR. Fishing pressure and species traits affect stream fish invasions both directly and indirectly. DIVERS DISTRIB 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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- Brandon K. Peoples
- Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation; Clemson University; Clemson SC USA
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- Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences; Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge LA USA
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Rosso A, Aragón P, Acevedo F, Doadrio I, García-Barros E, Lobo JM, Munguira ML, Monserrat VJ, Palomo J, Pleguezuelos JM, Romo H, Triviño V, Sánchez-Fernández D. Effectiveness of the Natura 2000 network in protecting Iberian endemic fauna. Anim Conserv 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/acv.12387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- A. Rosso
- Universidad Pablo de Olavide; Sevilla Spain
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- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC); Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC); Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Biología; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC); Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Biología; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Animal; Universidad de Málaga; Malaga Spain
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- Departamento de Biología; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales; Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; Campus Tecnológico de la Fábrica de Armas; Toledo Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales; Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; Campus Tecnológico de la Fábrica de Armas; Toledo Spain
- Departamento de Ecología de Humedales; Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC); Americo Vespucio; Sevilla Spain
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Li Y, Chen J, Jiang L, Qiao G. Islands conserve high species richness and areas of endemism of Hormaphidinae aphids. Curr Zool 2017; 63:623-632. [PMID: 29492023 PMCID: PMC5804216 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zox004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2016] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Patterns of biodiversity and endemism are important and form the foundation for biogeography and conservation studies. Hormaphidinae is an aphid group mainly distributed in the Sino-Japanese, Oriental, and Nearctic zoogeographic realms. To infer the areas of endemism of Hormaphidinae aphids in the Sino-Japanese and Oriental realms, we employed a geographical distribution dataset covering all 225 species in subfamily Hormaphidinae. In total, 1,245 distribution occurrence records for all species were analyzed in addition to the number of species in a certain grid cell to calculate species richness. Two methods (parsimony analysis of endemicity (PAE) and the use of an optimization criterion-NDM/VNDM) using a total of 6 grid sizes were applied to detect possible areas of endemism and to assess the probable effects of the 2 different methods and 6 grid sizes on the results of the patterns of the areas of endemism. The results revealed that islands presented most of the areas with high species richness and endemic species, particularly Japan, Taiwan Island, Java Island, the Malaysian Peninsula, southeast Himalaya, and the Hengduan Mountains. Most of these areas of endemism were located on islands or a peninsula. Islands were therefore shown to play an essential role in facilitating the formation of high species richness and endemism. Different grid sizes directly determined the regions of the areas of endemism, with small grid sizes tending to detect small and discrete areas of endemism and large grid sizes identifying continuous areas of endemism. In terms of the two methods, NDM/VNDM was found to identify more areas of endemism than PAE.
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- Yang Li
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Troia MJ, McManamay RA. Completeness and coverage of open‐access freshwater fish distribution data in the United States. DIVERS DISTRIB 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- Matthew J. Troia
- Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge TN USA
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- Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge TN USA
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Tripathi P, Behera MD, Roy PS. Optimized grid representation of plant species richness in India-Utility of an existing national database in integrated ecological analysis. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0173774. [PMID: 28296954 PMCID: PMC5352167 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2016] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Data on the distribution of plant species at spatial (grid) scales are required as input for integrative analysis along with related climate, environment, topography and soil data. Although the world’s scientific community is increasingly generating data on plant species at various spatial grids and statistically interpolating and extrapolating the available information, data on plant diversity from the Asian continent are scant. Such data are unavailable for India, the mainland of which has part of three of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots. Although sufficient field sampling is always impossible and impractical, it is essential to utilize fully any available database by adjudging the sampling sufficiency at a given scale. In this work, we used an exhaustive database of the plant species of the Indian mainland that was sufficient in terms of sampling vegetation types. We transformed the data, obtained the distribution at the 1° and 2° spatial grid levels and evaluated the sampling sufficiency at acceptable threshold limits (60% to 80%). The greatest species richness values recorded in the 0.04 ha quadrant, 1° grid and 2° grid were 59, 623 and 1244, respectively. Clench model was significantly (p value < 0.001) fitted using the plant species data at both the grid levels with a very high coefficient of determination (>0.95). At an acceptable threshold limit of 70%, almost all the grids at the 2° level and more than 80% of the grids at the 1° level were found to be sufficiently sampled. Sampling sufficiency was observed to be highly scale-dependent as a greater number of 2° grids attained asymptotic behaviour following the species–area curve. Grid-level sampling insufficiency was attributed to lower numbers of sampling quadrats in forests with poor approachability, which coincided with the world biodiversity hotspots’, suggesting that additional sampling was required. We prescribe the use of the 1° and 2° spatial grids with sufficient sampling for any ecological analysis in conjunction with other data and thereby offer grid-level plant species richness data for the Indian mainland for the first time.
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- Poonam Tripathi
- Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, INDIA
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- Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, INDIA
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- FNASc, FNAAS, NASI Senior Scientist Platinum Jubilee Fellow, Center for Earth & Space Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Venegas-Barrera CS, Correa-Sandoval A, Mora-Olivo A, Horta-Vega JV. Representatividad geográfica y ambiental de los registros de gastrópodos, pteridofitas y plantas acuáticas en el estado de Tamaulipas, México. REV MEX BIODIVERS 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rmb.2015.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Abellán P, Svenning JC. Refugia within refugia - patterns in endemism and genetic divergence are linked to Late Quaternary climate stability in the Iberian Peninsula. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Pedro Abellán
- Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity Group; Department of Bioscience; Aarhus University; Ny Munkegade 114 DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark
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- Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity Group; Department of Bioscience; Aarhus University; Ny Munkegade 114 DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark
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Guo Q, Olden JD. Spatial scaling of non-native fish richness across the United States. PLoS One 2014; 9:e97727. [PMID: 24844226 PMCID: PMC4028219 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2014] [Accepted: 04/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A major goal and challenge of invasion ecology is to describe and interpret spatial and temporal patterns of species invasions. Here, we examined fish invasion patterns at four spatially structured and hierarchically nested scales across the contiguous United States (i.e., from large to small: region, basin, watershed, and sub-watershed). All spatial relationships in both richness and fraction between species groups (e.g., natives vs. exotics) were positive at large scales. However, contrary to predictions using null/neutral models, the patterns at small scales were hump-shaped (unimodal), not simply negative. The fractions of both domestic (introduced among watersheds within the USA) and foreign (introduced from abroad) exotics increased with area across scales but decreased within each scale. The foreign exotics exhibited the highest dominance (lowest evenness) and spatial variation in distribution, followed by domestic exotics and natives, although on average natives still occupy larger areas than domestic and foreign exotics. The results provide new insight into patterns and mechanisms of fish species invasions at multiple spatial scales in the United States.
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- Qinfeng Guo
- USDA FS, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Kuemmerlen M, Schmalz B, Guse B, Cai Q, Fohrer N, Jähnig SC. Integrating catchment properties in small scale species distribution models of stream macroinvertebrates. Ecol Modell 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Jurkiewicz-Karnkowska E. Sampling intensity in biodiversity assessment: malacofauna of selected floodplain water bodies. FOLIA MALACOLOGICA 2014. [DOI: 10.12657/folmal.022.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Arribas P, Andújar C, Abellán P, Velasco J, Millán A, Ribera I. Tempo and mode of the multiple origins of salinity tolerance in a water beetle lineage. Mol Ecol 2013; 23:360-73. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.12605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2013] [Revised: 11/14/2013] [Accepted: 11/22/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Paula Arribas
- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Universidad de Murcia; Murcia 30100 Spain
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- Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física; Universidad de Murcia; Murcia 30100 Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Universidad de Murcia; Murcia 30100 Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Universidad de Murcia; Murcia 30100 Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Universidad de Murcia; Murcia 30100 Spain
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Barcelona 08003 Spain
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Sánchez-Fernández D, Abellán P, Picazo F, Millán A, Ribera I, Lobo JM. Do protected areas represent species' optimal climatic conditions? A test using Iberian water beetles. DIVERS DISTRIB 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- David Sánchez-Fernández
- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC); José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain
- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Universidad de Murcia; Campus de Espinardo; 30100 Murcia Spain
- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49 08003 Barcelona Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Universidad de Murcia; Campus de Espinardo; 30100 Murcia Spain
- Department of Bioscience; Aarhus University; Ny Munkegade 114 DK-08000 Aarhus C Denmark
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- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Universidad de Murcia; Campus de Espinardo; 30100 Murcia Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Universidad de Murcia; Campus de Espinardo; 30100 Murcia Spain
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- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49 08003 Barcelona Spain
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- Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC); José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain
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Pardo I, Pata MP, Gómez D, García MB. A novel method to handle the effect of uneven sampling effort in biodiversity databases. PLoS One 2013; 8:e52786. [PMID: 23326357 PMCID: PMC3543413 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2012] [Accepted: 11/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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How reliable are results on spatial distribution of biodiversity based on databases? Many studies have evidenced the uncertainty related to this kind of analysis due to sampling effort bias and the need for its quantification. Despite that a number of methods are available for that, little is known about their statistical limitations and discrimination capability, which could seriously constrain their use. We assess for the first time the discrimination capacity of two widely used methods and a proposed new one (FIDEGAM), all based on species accumulation curves, under different scenarios of sampling exhaustiveness using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analyses. Additionally, we examine to what extent the output of each method represents the sampling completeness in a simulated scenario where the true species richness is known. Finally, we apply FIDEGAM to a real situation and explore the spatial patterns of plant diversity in a National Park. FIDEGAM showed an excellent discrimination capability to distinguish between well and poorly sampled areas regardless of sampling exhaustiveness, whereas the other methods failed. Accordingly, FIDEGAM values were strongly correlated with the true percentage of species detected in a simulated scenario, whereas sampling completeness estimated with other methods showed no relationship due to null discrimination capability. Quantifying sampling effort is necessary to account for the uncertainty in biodiversity analyses, however, not all proposed methods are equally reliable. Our comparative analysis demonstrated that FIDEGAM was the most accurate discriminator method in all scenarios of sampling exhaustiveness, and therefore, it can be efficiently applied to most databases in order to enhance the reliability of biodiversity analyses.
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- Iker Pardo
- Conservation of Biodiversity, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain.
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D'Amen M, Bombi P, Campanaro A, Zapponi L, Bologna MA, Mason F. Protected areas and insect conservation: questioning the effectiveness of Natura 2000 network for saproxylic beetles in Italy. Anim Conserv 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/acv.12016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Corpo Forestale dello Stato; Centro Nazionale Biodiversità Forestale ‘Bosco Fontana’; Verona; Italy
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Abellán P, Ribera I. Geographic location and phylogeny are the main determinants of the size of the geographical range in aquatic beetles. BMC Evol Biol 2011; 11:344. [PMID: 22122885 PMCID: PMC3247920 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2011] [Accepted: 11/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Why some species are widespread while others are very restricted geographically is one of the most basic questions in biology, although it remains largely unanswered. This is particularly the case for groups of closely related species, which often display large differences in the size of the geographical range despite sharing many other factors due to their common phylogenetic inheritance. We used ten lineages of aquatic Coleoptera from the western Palearctic to test in a comparative framework a broad set of possible determinants of range size: species' age, differences in ecological tolerance, dispersal ability and geographic location. Results When all factors were combined in multiple regression models between 60-98% of the variance was explained by geographic location and phylogenetic signal. Maximum latitudinal and longitudinal limits were positively correlated with range size, with species at the most northern latitudes and eastern longitudes displaying the largest ranges. In lineages with lotic and lentic species, the lentic (better dispersers) display larger distributional ranges than the lotic species (worse dispersers). The size of the geographical range was also positively correlated with the extent of the biomes in which the species is found, but we did not find evidence of a clear relationship between range size and age of the species. Conclusions Our findings show that range size of a species is shaped by an interplay of geographic and ecological factors, with a phylogenetic component affecting both of them. The understanding of the factors that determine the size and geographical location of the distributional range of species is fundamental to the study of the origin and assemblage of the current biota. Our results show that for this purpose the most relevant data may be the phylogenetic history of the species and its geographical location.
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- Pedro Abellán
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, CSIC-UPF, Barcelona, Spain.
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SÁNCHEZ-FERNÁNDEZ DAVID, LOBO JORGEM, ABELLÁN PEDRO, MILLÁN ANDRÉS. Environmental niche divergence between genetically distant lineages of an endangered water beetle. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01668.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sánchez-Fernández D, Lobo JM, Abellán P, Millán A. How to identify future sampling areas when information is biased and scarce: An example using predictive models for species richness of Iberian water beetles. J Nat Conserv 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2010.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Sánchez-Fernández D, Lobo JM, Hernández-Manrique OL. Species distribution models that do not incorporate global data misrepresent potential distributions: a case study using Iberian diving beetles. DIVERS DISTRIB 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00716.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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ABELLÁN P, MILLÁN A, RIBERA I. Parallel habitat-driven differences in the phylogeographical structure of two independent lineages of Mediterranean saline water beetles. Mol Ecol 2009; 18:3885-902. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04319.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Zanini F, Pellet J, Schmidt BR. The transferability of distribution models across regions: an amphibian case study. DIVERS DISTRIB 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00556.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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