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Biodiversity is not (and never has been) a bed of roses
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The biosphere is a complex adaptive system whose study cannot be arbitrarily reduced to any single spatial- and/or temporal-scale level of resolution without a loss of content, so a spatially-integrated study of biodiversity dynamics at an evolutionary timescale is needed.About:
This article is published in Comptes Rendus Biologies.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 33 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biodiversity.read more
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Cycles in fossil diversity
R. A. Rohde,Richard A. Muller +1 more
TL;DR: Rohde et al. as discussed by the authors used the International Commission on Stratigraphy's 2004 time scale to translate the stratigraphic records into a record of diversity vs. time, with details given in the supplement.
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Diversity-Dependence, Ecological Speciation, and the Role of Competition in Macroevolution
TL;DR: An emerging body of research suggests that diversity-dependence contributes to the formation and persistence of incipient species and raises new questions about the meaning of ecological speciation.
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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction from Faunal Remains: Ecological Basics and Analytical Assumptions
TL;DR: Greater knowledge of ecological processes as well as increased analytical sophistication in paleozoology is providing increasingly rigorous and detailed insights to paleoenvironments.
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The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography
TL;DR: A study of the issue indicates that it is not a serious problem for neutral theory, and there is sometimes a difference between some of the simulation-based results of Hubbell and the analytical results of Volkov et al. (2003).
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Species Diversity in Space and Time
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a hierarchical dynamic puzzle to understand the relationship between habitat diversity and species diversity and the evolution of the relationships between habitats diversity and diversity in evolutionary time.
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The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology
Mathew A. Leibold,Marcel Holyoak,Nicolas Mouquet,Nicolas Mouquet,Priyanga Amarasekare,Jonathan M. Chase,Martha F. Hoopes,Robert D. Holt,Jonathan B. Shurin,Richard Law,David Tilman,Michel Loreau,Andrew Gonzalez +12 more
TL;DR: This framework is used to discuss why the metacommunity concept is useful in modifying existing ecological thinking and illustrate this with a number of both theoretical and empirical examples.
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Phylogenies and Community Ecology
TL;DR: A common pattern of phylogenetic conservatism in ecological character is recognized and the challenges of using phylogenies of partial lineages are highlighted and phylogenetic approaches to three emergent properties of communities: species diversity, relative abundance distributions, and range sizes are reviewed.
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New multidimensional functional diversity indices for a multifaceted framework in functional ecology.
TL;DR: This study suggests that decomposition of functional diversity into its three primary components provides a meaningful framework for its quantification and for the classification of existing functional diversity indices.
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