While other sea turtles such as the endangered Kemp's ridley have also staged comebacks in Mexico, the scope of the olive ridley nesting assemblages is unmatched.
We use analysis of nested mammalian species assemblages to 1) determine if Colorado Plateau mammal assemblages are significantly nested and, 2) clarify which properties of protected lands correlate with nestedness and species richness.
Our result is nevertheless intriguing as a similar pattern with the Cossoidea + Zygaenoidea + Sesioidea assemblage nested within Obtectomera has also been recovered by Regier et al. [ 11] in some of the analyses based on five protein-coding genes.
Finally, when significant nestedness was identified, we compared the rank order in which assemblages were nested to their order based on diversity index and isotopic value using Spearman's rank correlation66,67.
For cases in which assemblages are nested by such gradients, our new freeware program allows users to determine the line of smoothest transition among species-specific thresholds of occurrence.
Avian assemblages exhibited a highly nested structure and, with several notable exceptions, assemblages of birds in low-richness fragments were predictable subsets of those in more diverse fragments.
These results are consistent with previous analyses extensively focused on fungi, which suggested that fungal NRT2 sequences form a monophyletic group that is nested within a paraphyletic assemblage of sequences from heterokonts [5].
The Anisoptera are nested within a paraphyletic assemblage of "anisozygopteran" families, comprising five main lineages, including the extant family Epiophlebiidae belonging to its own exclusive lineage.
Also, although the RV associated with the human case was nested within the monophyletic assemblage of bat RV variants, RV variants phylogenetically closest to this case were still genetically distant.
With third codon positions included, the Cossoidea + Sesioidea + Zygaenoidea assemblage is nested in Obtectomera, which, on a morphological basis, seems less plausible than the conventional view of them being true non-obtectomerans.
