Spider assemblages collected following either cutting methods were not consistent with assemblages found within the chronosequence and thus fell outside the observed range of natural variability.
As with other approaches to coarse filter conservation, partial cutting is hypothesized to maintain and potentially recreate plant and animal assemblages consistent with a range of natural variability.
We conclude that both shelterwoods and multicohort harvesting stands provide at least initially similar benefits for biodiversity compared to clear cutting although neither maintains assemblages consistent with those found in uncut stands.
The lack of a consistent response of assemblages to the presence of shells can be explained not only by the extremely fast recovery following small-scale experimental disturbances, but also by the dispersal mechanisms related to reproductive traits of the dominant taxa.
We confirm the existence of consistent affinities between assemblages that were thought to belong to different supergroups of eukaryotes, thus not sharing a close evolutionary history.
Palynological residues contain sphenophyllalean cuticles, and the microfloral assemblage is consistent with a low-diversity glossoperid-dominated woodland with a sphenopsid understory.
Although "fresh lava" particles have a range of colors (e.g. Figs. 5(b), 6, 7(a)–(c), 8), they are consistent in their phenocryst assemblage and freshness relative to "partly altered" lava particles (accessory and accidental).
Both the contexts show a high degree of fragmentation of the artefacts; in the case of Building 6, this can be due to cullet collection for recycling purpose; in the case of the US4381, the high fragmentation of this part of assemblage is consistent with the function of the context, that is meant to host waste.
Second, a wet egg surface should lead to an interconnected microbial assemblage, creating consistent interactions between bacteria and thus high homogeneity.
The over-abundance of elk and horse in the Yellowstone death assemblage is consistent with a preservational bias favoring larger body-sizes (360 kg and 450 kg respectively, Table S1), but other species comparisons contradict such a bias.
