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Disentangling the multiple components of anuran diversity associated to different land-uses in Yungas forests, Argentina
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2018-10)
Natural habitats have drastically regressed due to rapid changes in land-use during recent decades, generating a decrease in species diversity. In light of natural habitat destruction worldwide, there is a need to adopt ...
The diversity of diversity: further methodological considerations on the use of the concept in cultural economics
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2006-10-01)
The implications of diversity still raise confusion in the cultural debate. We address them from both a formal and conceptual viewpoints, putting in check the validity of some arguments. We conclude that: measuring diversity ...
The scale dependency of spatial crop species diversity and its relation to temporal diversity
(National Academy of Sciences, 2020-10-20)
Increasing crop species diversity can enhance agricultural sustainability, but the scale dependency of the processes that shape diversity and of the effects of diversity on agroecosystems is insufficiently understood. We ...
Conceptual and statistical problems associated with the use of diversity indices in ecology
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2009)
Ecological Diversity in South American Mammals: Their Geographical Distribution Shows Variable Associations with Phylogenetic Diversity and Does Not Follow the Latitudinal Richness Gradient
(Public Library Of Science, 2015-06)
The extent to which the latitudinal gradient in species richness may be paralleled by a similar gradient of increasing functional or phylogenetic diversity is a matter of controversy. We evaluated whether taxonomic richness ...
The positive association between natural vegetation, native coccinellids and functional diversity of aphidophagous coccinellid communities in alfalfa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2021)
© 2021 The Royal Entomological SocietyA greater taxonomic and functional diversity of natural enemies in agroecosystems is frequently positively associated with more effective pest control, due to the complementarity of ...
Policies and practices of diversity: reimagining possibilities for new discourses
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2009)
The processes of globalization have demanded that emergent countries include issues of diversity into their political, economic and educational agendas. Consequently, educational institutions have started, in order to ...