Still, these methods share the goal with standard cladistic approaches of producing "area cladograms," hierarchical patterns of biotic relationships between areas of endemism that are interpreted in terms of processes (e.g., Maguire and Stigall 2008), but which are inferred without explicit reference to an underlying statistical process model (see below).
Within a wider ecological context, Rout and Callaway (2009) have identified this mechanism as potentially underlining an invasive plant paradox whereby above- and belowground biotic relationships (particularly those involving N-cycling) can facilitate plant invasions or, in this case, mono-dominance and all the while increase soil nutrient stocks.
Due to the complex abiotic and biotic relationships in the Baltic Sea, it is rather a combination of both effects.
As a highly curated and comprehensive systems database, SymbioGenomesDB provides access to the complete catalog of fully sequenced and annotated genomes of symbiotic organisms and their features including genomic sequences and metrics, which can be useful for research, reducing the time-consuming search for biotic relationships and the features of the organisms involved.
It should be noted that this discussion of the potential adverse effects of global warming on the current and future performance of A. sachalinensis takes no account of other warming-influenced factors, such as changes in the amount of precipitation or the biotic relationships within the stand that might affect populations' productivity.
One system uses multiple independent equations (one equation for each species in the system) to relate each species to the abiotic part of its environment, and then subsequently explores the biotic relationships in the residuals of the equations (e.g. Peres-Neto et al., 2001).
A statistical dependence between two species infers, but does not prove, a direct biotic causal relationship.
Intricacy of biotic interactions (predator-prey relationship, strength of food web links and other type of intra- and inter-specific relationships), as well as shifts in species functions in ecosystems, could affect the accuracy of predictions derived from the theory of redundancy of species, when applied to ecosystems assessment.
The objective of this paper is to illustrate the concept of the soil-geomorphic template and its relationship to biotic change in arid and semi-arid regions.
At the community level, we assessed the relationship of biotic homogenization to anthropogenic disturbance.
