A multi-faceted assessment of diversity is needed to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying biodiversity patterns and to reveal the impacts of land use alterations on β-diversity. In this study, we analysed ...

Aim: β diversity was used as an indicator to test the hypothesis that a fishway can increase river connectivity, as a reduction in the value of this metric indicates greater similarity among fish assemblages. Methods: ...

Biological communities are subject to spatiotemporal variations in community structure, i.e., species composition, richness, and abundance. Plant–pollinator interactions are affected by species composition and abundance, ...

The production of β-lactamase enzymes is one of the most distributed resistance mechanisms towards β-lactam antibiotics. Metallo-β-lactamases constitute a worrisome group of these kinds of enzymes, since they present a ...

Ecological uniqueness is one aspect of beta (β) diversity that shows the relative contribution of sites (local contribution to beta diversity – LCBD) and taxa (species contribution to beta diversity – SCBD) in the formation ...

Understanding how wetland organisms interact with neighbor habitats along environmental gradients is important to recognize wetland integrity and its connectivity at landscape-level. We evaluated whether assemblage ...

In this work, we investigated the factors that determine the distribution of galling insects in high-altitude grasslands, locally called campos de altitude' of Mantiqueira Range and tested whether 1) richness of galling ...

This paper characterizes the fish assemblage and its interaction with different ecotones within the reservoir. The transformation of a river basin into a cascade of reservoirs produces new ecotones which interact differentially ...