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Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity

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Calculation of PD for different population subsets shows that protection of populations at either of two extremes of the geographic range of the group can significantly increase the phylogenetic diversity that is protected.
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This article is published in Biological Conservation.The article was published on 1992-01-01. It has received 4085 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gamma diversity & Alpha diversity.

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A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

TL;DR: The faecal microbial communities of adult female monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs concordant for leanness or obesity, and their mothers are characterized to address how host genotype, environmental exposure and host adiposity influence the gut microbiome.
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Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

TL;DR: Picante is a software package that provides a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing the phylogenetic and trait diversity of ecological communities and performs tests for phylogenetic signal in trait distributions, community structure and species interactions.
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Pyrosequencing-based assessment of soil pH as a predictor of soil bacterial community structure at the continental scale.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the structure of soil bacterial communities is predictable, to some degree, across larger spatial scales, and the effect of soil pH on bacterial community composition is evident at even relatively coarse levels of taxonomic resolution.
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Microbiota Modulate Behavioral and Physiological Abnormalities Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

TL;DR: A gut-microbiome-brain connection in a mouse model of ASD is supported and a potential probiotic therapy for GI and particular behavioral symptoms in human neurodevelopmental disorders is identified.
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Human Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome

TL;DR: Compared microbiotas across >1,000 fecal samples obtained from the TwinsUK population, many microbial taxa whose abundances were influenced by host genetics were identified.
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Indicators for Monitoring Biodiversity: A Hierarchical Approach

TL;DR: The three primay attributes of biodiversity recognized by Jerry Franklin are expanded into a nested hierarcby that incorporates ele- ments of each attribute at four levels of organization: re- gional landscape, community-ecosystem, population- species, andgenetic.
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What to protect?—Systematics and the agony of choice

TL;DR: It is concluded that two basic rounds of analysis are required: recognition of global priority areas by taxic diversity techniques; and, within any such area, analysis without taxic weighting to identify a network of reserves to contain all local taxa and ecosystems.
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Conserving the World's Biological Diversity

TL;DR: The 1990s may be the last decade during which constructive and creative decisions, activities, and investments can be made to ensure that many of the world's species and ecosystems are maintained, examined for their material and ecological value, and promoted for sustainable use to support new and innovative approaches to development as mentioned in this paper.
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