Furthermore, it is likely that larger and distinct infaunal biodiversity is a result of an increase in bone structural complexity caused by Osedax, which also facilitates the colonization of inner-bone matrices.
We propose that ecologists should recognize and assess 15 distinct categories of biodiversity trend.
Methods of assessing conservation value are highly contested and have led to several distinct approaches to biodiversity mapping.
Putatively old-forest dependent fungi have acquired a distinct position in biodiversity conservation, acting both as management targets and indicators for other nature values in the forest.
Compared to the remainder, the Continental Rise and Seamount sub-regions displayed distinct patterns of biodiversity structure, as they both demonstrated lower taxonomic breadth (i.e. diversity) and greater than expected variation in taxonomic distinctness in their species lists.
Species with wide distributions over variable environments and large effective population sizes often display marked intraspecific biodiversity with distinct genotypes/populations within a species, resulting from adaptation to local environmental conditions but capable of interbreeding with other ecotypes of the same species (e.g. [ 13, 14]).
The northwest European heathland landscape with its characteristic communities of nutrient-poor and acidic soils has a high nature value, because of its locally high biodiversity and the distinct site conditions.
The 52-year-old chemical engineer has never worked on an NSF-funded project, and has no ties to the ecological community that will use NEON over the next 3 decades to collect and analyze vast amounts of data on climate change, land use, and biodiversity from 20 distinct biomes.
Like the large variability observed in the current status of different biodiversity components (Figure 2), distinct and sometimes opposite dynamics were also apparent (Figure 3).
Consequently, the shelf, continental slope, and abyssal plain faunas are clearly distinct, suggesting that these transitions are biodiversity bottlenecks (Fig. 1) (Carney, 2005; Menot et al., 2010).
