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Mészáros, Gábor. "Genomic descriptors of biodiversity – A review." Die Bodenkultur: Journal of Land Management, Food and Environment 69, no. 2 (2018): 73–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/boku-2018-0007.

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Summary The characterization of livestock genetic diversity has experienced extensive changes with the availability of dense nucleotide markers. Among the various forms of markers, the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) have arguably the largest influence. A wide range of indicators for the assessment of genetic diversity was developed, or the existing methods were improved, enabling us to make informed decisions on the management of livestock populations. This review discusses the selected aspects of diversity assessment, with special attention to the SNP based methods. One of the core con

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Tedesco, Letizia, Chiara Piroddi, Maria Kämäri, and Christopher Lynam. "Capabilities of Baltic Sea models to assess environmental status for marine biodiversity." Marine Policy 70 (April 8, 2016): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.04.021.

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<strong>Abstract</strong> To date there has been no evaluation of the capabilities of the Baltic Sea ecosystem models to provide information as outlined by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. This work aims to fill in this knowledge gap by exploring the modelling potential of nine Baltic Sea ecosystem models to support this specific European policy and, in particular, models' capabilities to inform on marine biodiversity. Several links are found between the Model-Derived Indicators and some of the relevant biodiversity-related descriptors (i.e. biological diversity and food webs), and

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Paramana, Theodora, George Katsouras, and Manos Dassenakis. "Assessing the first MSFD Implementation Cycle in Greece under Biodiversity and Contaminants Descriptors." Water 13, no. 24 (2021): 3547. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13243547.

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The present work constitutes an assessment of the first implementation cycle of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC in Greece by focusing on biodiversity and contaminants, i.e., Descriptors 1 (biodiversity), 4 (food webs), 6 (seafloor integrity), 8 (contaminants), and 9 (contaminants in seafood), and by following the directive’s requirements regarding Articles 8—Initial Assessment, 9—Definition of Good Environmental Status, 10—Establishment of Environmental Targets, 11—Monitoring Programmes, and 13—Programmes of Measures. In this study, the analysis that was conducted investigat

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Herzog, F., G. Lüscher, M. Arndorfer, et al. "European farm scale habitat descriptors for the evaluation of biodiversity." Ecological Indicators 77 (June 2017): 205–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.01.010.

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Kerner, Adeline, Sylvain Bouquin, Rémy Portier, and Lebbe Régine Vignes. "The 8 Years of Existence of Xper3: State of the art and future developments of the platform." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5 (September 10, 2021): e74250. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.74250.

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The Xper3 platform was launched in November 2013 (Saucède et al. 2020). Xper3 is a free web platform that manages descriptive data and provides interactive identification keys. It is a follow-up to Xper (Forget et al. 1986) and Xper2 (Ung et al. 2010). Xper3 is used via web browsers. It offers a collaborative, multi-user interface without local installation. It is compatible with TDWG's Structured Descriptive Data (SDD) format. Xper3 and its previous version, Xper2, have already been used for various taxonomic groups. In June 2021, 4743 users had created accounts and edited 5756 knowledge base

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Pasche, Emilie, Donat Agosti, Lyubomir Penev, et al. "Towards "Biodiversity PMC"." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7 (August 28, 2023): e111647. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111647.

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The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) Literature services (SIBiLS, Gobeill et al. 2020) provides powerful search capabilities to explore the life and health sciences literature by mirroring the United States National Institute of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM) (MEDLINE) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) PubMed Central® contents.In the course of the BiCIKL project, SIBiLS started indexing a larger set of biodiversity-related contents in the broad sense including environmental sciences and ecology, to build a new literature database called "Biodivers

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Vimal, Ruppert, Pascal Pluvinet, Céline Sacca, Pierre-Olivier Mazagol, Bernard Etlicher, and John D. Thompson. "Exploring spatial patterns of vulnerability for diverse biodiversity descriptors in regional conservation planning." Journal of Environmental Management 95, no. 1 (2012): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.09.018.

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Campbell, Peter, and Peterson Andrew Townsend. "Interpreting and Georeferencing the Concept of "Near" in Locality Descriptors in Biodiversity Records." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6 (August 23, 2022): e93862. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.93862.

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The process of georeferencing is fundamentally a matter of spatial relationships: where is the point of interest in relation to the Prime Meridian, the Equator, the nearest landmark, etc. The process of adding geographic coordinates and uncertainty measurements to data coming from the work of others is often complicated by interpretation and subjectivity. Take for instance the description, "found near the city of Springfield", which might be assigned a coordinate pair based on the centroid of the city's footprint. If the implication is that the subject was found around Springfield, then how cl

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Brigante, Raffaella, Laura Marconi, Simona Lucia Facchin, et al. "Laser Scanning for Canopy Characterization in Hazelnut Trees: A Preliminary Approach to Define Growth Habitus Descriptor." Agriculture 15, no. 12 (2025): 1251. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15121251.

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The accurate definition of tree growth descriptors is a crucial step in enhancing orchard management, allowing cultivar identification within an orchard and in new genotype selection for breeding programs. In apple, almond, and olive orchards, Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) technologies have been already used to identify different architectural groups, but not in hazelnut yet. This study utilized TLS to investigate the canopy structure of hazelnut trees of four different Italian varieties, with and without leaves. TLS proved to be a sensor capable of collecting three-dimensional data from ha

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Soares, Filipi, Antonio Saraiva, and Debora Drucker. "Linking Agrobiodiversity Data through Metadata Standards." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4 (September 28, 2020): e58928. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.58928.

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Agrobiodiversity, or biodiversity for food and agriculture, plays a major role in the sustainability of food production. As stated by FAO 2019, agrobiodiversity can provide food production systems and society with a variety of services as ecosystem services, crops resilience to threats, sustainable intensification, livelihoods, food security and nutrition. The official definition of the concept has been given by CBD 2000 as "a broad term that includes all components of biological diversity of relevance to food and agriculture, and all components of biological diversity that constitute the agro

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Dmitriev, Dmitry, Yanghui Cao, and Christopher H. Dietrich. "TaxonWorks as a Tool for Managing Large Biodiversity Projects." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6 (August 23, 2022): e93668. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.93668.

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Large systematic revisionary projects incorporating data for hundreds or thousands of taxa require an integrative approach, with a strong biodiversity-informatics core for efficient data management to facilitate research on the group. Our original biodiversity informatics platform, 3i (Internet-accessible Interactive Identification) combined a customized MS Access database backend with ASP-based web interfaces to support revisionary syntheses of several large genera of leafhopers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). More recently, for our National Science Foundation sponsored project, "

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Absalão, Ricardo Silva, and Thiago Silva De Paula. "Shell morphometrics of three species of gadilid Scaphopoda (Mollusca) from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: comparing the discriminating power of primary and secondary descriptors." Zootaxa 706, no. 1 (2004): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.706.1.1.

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Absalão, Ricardo Silva, Paula, Thiago Silva De (2004): Shell morphometrics of three species of gadilid Scaphopoda (Mollusca) from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: comparing the discriminating power of primary and secondary descriptors. Zootaxa 706 (1): 1-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.706.1.1, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.706.1.1

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Lassen, Hans, Søren Anker Pedersen, Hans Frost, and Ayoe Hoff. "Fishery management advice with ecosystem considerations." ICES Journal of Marine Science 70, no. 2 (2013): 471–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss208.

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Abstract Lassen, H., Pedersen, S. A., Frost, H., and Hoff. A. 2013. Fishery management advice with ecosystem considerations. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70: 471–479. The European Union Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) includes four descriptors of Good Environmental Status (GES) which are affected by fishing activity. These descriptors are: biodiversity, fish stocks, foodweb, and seabed integrity. This paper shows how these descriptors can be related to variables within an ecological model and how an ecological model can be used to analyse whether the fishing pressure that is es

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Bakış, Yasin, Xiaojun Wang, and Hank Bart. "Challenges in Curating 2D Multimedia Data in the Application of Machine Learning in Biodiversity Image Analysis." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5 (September 28, 2021): e75856. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75856.

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Over 1 billion biodiversity collection specimens ranging from fungi to fish to fossils are housed in more than 1,600 natural history collections across the United States. The digitization of these specimens has risen significantly within the last few decades and this is only likely to increase, as the use of digitized data gains more importance every day. Numerous experiments with automated image analysis have proven the practicality and usefulness of digitized biodiversity images by computational techniques such as neural networks and image processing. However, most of the computational techn

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Schindel, David, Scott Miller, Michael Trizna, Eileen Graham, and Adele Crane. "The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories: A Call for Community Curation." Biodiversity Data Journal 4 (August 26, 2016): e10293. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e10293.

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The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories is an online metadata resource for biodiversity collections, the institutions that contain them, and associated staff members. The registry provides contact and address information, characteristics of the institutions and collections using controlled vocabularies and free-text descripitons, links to related websites, unique identifiers for each institution and collection record, text fields for loan and use policies, and a variety of other descriptors. Each institution record includes an institutionCode that must be unique, and each collection r

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McCallum, Jenn, Paul Elliott, and Terese McIntosh. "Searching For Signs of Life in Ontario Universities: An Innovative Method for Evaluating Biodiversity Integration within University Curricula." Canadian Journal of Higher Education 47, no. 2 (2017): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v47i2.186549.

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This study investigates the degree to which biodiversity concepts are included within university curricula in Ontario and provides a baseline for tracking this. A keyword search of undergraduate and graduate academic calendars from six Ontario universities was conducted. A list of 28 relevant keywords was developed, and university program descriptors were searched for these keywords, while considering core and elective courses within each program. Almost half (49.5%) of the 386 undergraduate programs, and 29.4% of the 327 graduate programs featured biodiversity keywords. Science programs showe

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Bettcher, Larissa, Julio C.C. Fernandez, Marianela Gastaldi, et al. "Checklist, diversity descriptors and selected descriptions of a highly diverse intertidal sponge (Porifera) assemblage at Costa do Descobrimento (Bahia, Brazil)." Zootaxa 5277, no. 3 (2023): 443–89. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5277.3.2.

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Bettcher, Larissa, Fernandez, Julio C.C., Gastaldi, Marianela, Bispo, André, Leal, Camille V., Leite, Dora, Avelino-Alves, Dhara, Clerier, Pedro H.B., Rezende, Dafinny, Gulart, Clara M.R., Pinheiro, Ulisses, Hajdu, Eduardo (2023): Checklist, diversity descriptors and selected descriptions of a highly diverse intertidal sponge (Porifera) assemblage at Costa do Descobrimento (Bahia, Brazil). Zootaxa 5277 (3): 443-489, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5277.3.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5277.3.2

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Brilhante, Bruna Dias Gomes, Talles de Oliveira Santos, Pedro Henrique Araújo Diniz Santos, et al. "Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Brazilian Capsicum Germplasm." Agronomy 11, no. 5 (2021): 854. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11050854.

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Population growth and the high demand for food production has caused environmental degradation losses in biodiversity. The conservation of genetic resources is the most appropriate strategy for maintaining the variability of species of great importance, such as Capsicum. In this study, we describe the characterization of 69 pepper accessions of four Capsicum species from different regions of Brazil on the basis of qualitative and quantitative descriptors and ISSR markers. The 11 quantitative descriptors grouped the 69 populations into five clades. The fruit traits had the greater discriminatio

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Assmann, Jakob J., Jesper E. Moeslund, Urs A. Treier, and Signe Normand. "EcoDes-DK15: high-resolution ecological descriptors of vegetation and terrain derived from Denmark's national airborne laser scanning data set." Earth System Science Data 14, no. 2 (2022): 823–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-823-2022.

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Abstract. Biodiversity studies could strongly benefit from three-dimensional data on ecosystem structure derived from contemporary remote sensing technologies, such as light detection and ranging (lidar). Despite the increasing availability of such data at regional and national scales, the average ecologist has been limited in accessing them due to high requirements on computing power and remote sensing knowledge. We processed Denmark's publicly available national airborne laser scanning (ALS) data set acquired in 2014/15, together with the accompanying elevation model, to compute 70 rasterise

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Dmitriev, Dmitry, and Matthew Yoder. "TaxonWorks: Character state matrices and identification tools." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5 (September 21, 2021): e75554. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75554.

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TaxonWorks is an integrated web-based application for practicing taxonomists and biodiversity specialists. It is focused on promoting collaboration between researchers and developers. TaxonWorks has a modular structure that enables various components of the application to target specific needs and requirements of different groups of users. Specific areas of interest may include nomenclature-related tasks (Yoder and Dmitriev 2021) designed to help assemble and validate scientific name checklists of a target group of organisms; and collection management tasks, including interfaces to create, fil

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Piroddi, Chiara, Heliana Teixeira, Christopher P. Lynam, et al. "Using ecological models to assess ecosystem status in support of the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive." Ecological Indicators 58 (May 19, 2015): 175–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.05.037.

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<strong>Abstract</strong> The European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) seeks to achieve, for all European seas, "Good Environmental Status" (GEnS), by 2020. Ecological models are currently one of the strongest approaches used to predicting and understanding the consequences of anthropogenic and climate-driven changes in the natural environment. We assess the most commonly used capabilities of the modelling community to provide information about indicators outlined in the MSFD, particularly on biodiversity, food webs, non-indigenous species and seafloor integr

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Harjes, Janno, Dagmar Triebel, Anton Link, Tanja Weibulat, Frank Oliver Glöckner, and Gerhard Rambold. "FAIR data in meta-omics research: Using the MOD-CO schema to describe structural and operational elements of workflows from field to publication." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3 (July 2, 2019): e37596. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37596.

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Nucleic acid and protein sequencing-based analyses are increasingly applied to determine origin, identity and traits of environmental (biological) objects and organisms. In this context, the need for corresponding data structures has become evident. As existing schemas and community standards in the domains of biodiversity and molecular biological research are comparatively limited with regard to the number of generic and specific elements, previous schemas for describing the physical and digital objects need to be replaced or expanded by new elements for covering the requirements from meta-om

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Alvares Bianchi, Paola, Lígia Renata Almeida da Silva, Antônio André da Silva Alencar, et al. "Biomorphological Characterization of Brazilian Capsicum Chinense Jacq. Germplasm." Agronomy 10, no. 3 (2020): 447. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10030447.

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Loss of biodiversity and ecosystem degradation become major concerns worldwide, making the conservation process an important strategy for maintaining biodiversity. Capsicum chinense Jacq. is the most Brazilian species of the genus, with representatives in different biomes. Anthropic pressure, such as burns, real estate speculation, and changing cultivation habit has led to risks of genetic erosion. Conservation and characterization of conserved accessions are paramount to ensure genetic diversity, useful for the bioeconomy and for genetic improvement. We report the characterization of 55 C. ch

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Arok, Maja, Branko Brkljač, Predrag Lugonja, Bojana Ivošević, Milan Vukotić, and Tijana Nikolić Lugonja. "High resolution descriptors for UAV mapping in biodiversity conservation – A case study of sandy steppe habitat renewal." PLOS ONE 20, no. 3 (2025): e0315399. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315399.

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Due to the large-scale disappearance of grasslands there is an urgent need for revitalization. It calls for consistent and accessible monitoring and mapping plans, and an integrated management approach. However, revitalization efforts often focus solely on the vegetation component, and skip the link to other animal species that perform vital functions as ecosystem engineers and umbrella species. In this study, we combine an in-situ standard phytocoenological survey with an UAV-based technology in the effort to improve the monitoring and mapping of the sandy steppe habitat of the European groun

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Fernando Rodrigues Rocha, Alexandre, Domingos Lucas dos Santos Silva, Guilherme Sousa da Silva, Ana Clara Ferreira Damaceno, Maria de Fátima Veras Araújo, and Goncalo Mendes da Conceicao. "Distribution pattern in Maranhão: a case for palm tree conservation." Concilium 23, no. 10 (2023): 542–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.53660/clm-1401-23f32.

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The study demonstrated patterns of palm tree diversity on a regional scale in the state of Maranhão. Occurrence points were acquired in February 2021, in online biodiversity banks, using descriptors, "Arecaceae" and "Maranhão". Occurrence records from the Global Information System on Biodiversity-GBIF, Information System that Integrates Primary Data from Scientific Collections-SpeciesLink, Reflora and Information System on Brazilian Biodiversity-SiBBr were used. The data underwent cleaning to remove doubtful information and organize the coordinates and, in the end, totaled 235 records of 41 sp

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Fiore, Maria Carola, Francesco Maria Raimondo, Francesco Mercati, Ignazio Digangi, Francesco Sunseri, and Anna Scialabba. "Preserving Biodiversity in Marginal Rural Areas: Assessment of Morphological and Genetic Variability of a Sicilian Common Bean Germplasm Collection." Plants 9, no. 8 (2020): 989. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9080989.

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The historical cultivation of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) has resulted in the development of local populations/cultivars in restricted Italian rural areas. Many common bean landraces, still cultivated in small mountain areas from Sicily, have become outdated and endangered due to the commercial varieties spreading. These accessions are poorly known but often represent a genetic heritage to be preserved and enhanced. The ex situ conservation of fifty-seven Sicilian common bean landraces was carried out at the “Living Plants Germplasm Bank” at Ucria (Messina, Italy), founded by the Nebro

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Moussouni, Abdenour, Zoubir Boubaker, and Amin Chaffai. "Ecology and “bird-habitat” relationship in the cedar forest of Aurès mountain (Eastern Algeria)." Ornis Hungarica 30, no. 2 (2022): 86–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/orhu-2022-0022.

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Abstract This work aims to compile the birds breeding in the cedar forest of Aurès and to study the “Bird – Habitat” relationships. The data was collected using the progressive frequency sampling method that served as the basis for the diagnosis build on an analytical approach designed around three tools (mutual information, ecological profiles, modelling). Information theory tools allowed us to identify the indicator values of species as well as the most important descriptors. Habitat modelling has been prepared for species with a high indicator value. The logistic models are shown to be well

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Ait Said, Asma, Ahmed Oukabli, Fatima Gaboun, Marie Hélène Simard, and Cherkaoui El Modafar. "Phenotypic biodiversity of an endemic wild pear, Pyrus mamorensis Trab., in North-Western Morocco using morphological descriptors." Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 60, no. 3 (2012): 927–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10722-012-9889-4.

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Regos, Adrián, Pablo Gómez-Rodríguez, Salvador Arenas-Castro, Luis Tapia, María Vidal, and Jesús Domínguez. "Model-Assisted Bird Monitoring Based on Remotely Sensed Ecosystem Functioning and Atlas Data." Remote Sensing 12, no. 16 (2020): 2549. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12162549.

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Urgent action needs to be taken to halt global biodiversity crisis. To be effective in the implementation of such action, managers and policy-makers need updated information on the status and trends of biodiversity. Here, we test the ability of remotely sensed ecosystem functioning attributes (EFAs) to predict the distribution of 73 bird species with different life-history traits. We run ensemble species distribution models (SDMs) trained with bird atlas data and 12 EFAs describing different dimensions of carbon cycle and surface energy balance. Our ensemble SDMs—exclusively based on EFAs—hold

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Bratton, Susan Power. "Spiritual Encounters with Nature." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 24, no. 1 (2020): 35–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685357-02401100.

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Abstract Mitchell (2016) proposes shared stories and religious background are unimportant to hiker spiritual experience on John Muir National Trail, USA. This study analyzes surveys from 265 volunteer day-hikes in three settings: urban, suburban natural area, and wildland; representing three modes of hiking: goal-directed, nature observation, and meditative. Overall, setting produced more statistically significant differences (22 of 25) among locale descriptors than the mode did (3 of 25). Sacred was more closely associated with descriptors of lack of human presence, than those related to biod

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Ramírez-Ojeda, Gabriela, Iris E. Peralta, Eduardo Rodríguez-Guzmán, José Luis Chávez-Servia, Jaime Sahagún-Castellanos, and Juan Enrique Rodríguez-Pérez. "Climatic Diversity and Ecological Descriptors of Wild Tomato Species (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon) and Close Related Species (Solanum sect. Juglandifolia y sect. Lycopersicoides) in Latin America." Plants 10, no. 5 (2021): 855. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10050855.

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Conservation and sustainable use of species diversity require a description of the environment where they develop. The objectives were to determine ecological descriptors and climatic diversity of areas along the distribution range of 12 species of wild tomatoes (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon) and four wild species of phylogenetically related groups (Solanum sect. Juglandifolia and sect. Lycopersicoides), as well as their ecological similarity in Latin America. With 4228 selected tomato accessions and an environmental information system (EIS) composed of 21 climatic variables, diversity patterns

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Radinović, Irena, Sanja Vasiljević, Gordana Branković, Tomislav Živanović, and Slaven Prodanović. "Biodiversity of a red clover collection based on morpho-productive traits." Acta agriculturae Serbica 27, no. 53 (2022): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/aaser2253057r.

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Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) is a meadow and pasture species in natural habitats and also a cultivated species used for animal nutrition. The aim of this research was the assessment of the diversity of 46 red clover accessions based on morpho-productive traits. The traits were investigated according to the UPOV descriptors for red clover-number of internodes, number of branches, stem length, stem thickness, middle leaflet length, middle leaflet width, green matter yield and dry matter yield. The principal components analysis (PCA) explained 74% of the variance of the standardized data an

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Buch, Corinne, Daniel Hering, and Peter Keil. "Drivers of plant biodiversity on cemeteries in the Ruhr Metropolitan Region (W Germany)." Urban Ecosystems 28, no. 1 (2024): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11252-024-01617-y.

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AbstractCemeteries are biodiversity hotspots in urban areas, while the drivers of their floristic diversity are poorly understood. We investigated 153 cemeteries in the western Ruhr Metropolitan Region and generated comprehensive species lists of wild plants. Altogether, we found 964 species, equivalent to 53.6% of the flora known from the region. Cluster analysis revealed five distinct cemetery types based on their species composition and prevalence. Subsequently, we used ANOVAs to relate the most effective environmental descriptors identified with a CCA to the five clusters, thus revealing t

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Gomes-Bezerra, Kadja Milena, Sueli Maria Gomes, Conceição Eneida Dos Santos Silveira, and Lucia Helena Soares-Silva. "Leaf epidermal descriptors applied to the taxonomy of Lauraceae, including new anatomical characters." Phytotaxa 358, no. 1 (2018): 49–66. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.358.1.3.

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Gomes-Bezerra, Kadja Milena, Gomes, Sueli Maria, Silveira, Conceição Eneida Dos Santos, Soares-Silva, Lucia Helena (2018): Leaf epidermal descriptors applied to the taxonomy of Lauraceae, including new anatomical characters. Phytotaxa 358 (1): 49-66, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.358.1.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.358.1.3

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Gyurkó, Adrienn, Borbála Baktay, Anna Varga, and Zsolt Szani. "Complex evaluation of wild pear." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Agriculture and Environment 15, no. 1 (2023): 66–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2023-0006.

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Abstract The National Centre for Biodiversity and Gene Conservation (NBGK) started the gene bank collection and agrobotanical evaluation of wild pear varieties in 2022. The survey of individuals and the recording of descriptors was carried out in several rounds. Part of the data was recorded in situ on the field, and the other part was analysed after the trip. For the in-situ collection of wild fruit plant species and varieties, it was necessary to develop a method for the collection and description. This applied to the development of the survey methodology as well as to the design of the work

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Xavier, Bruna Silva, Ana Rainho, Ana M. C. Santos, Marcus Vinícius Vieira, and William Douglas Carvalho. "Global systematic map of research on bats in agricultural systems." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 (June 12, 2023): 1214176. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13427673.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Introduction The conversion of natural habitats to agricultural systems is one of the main global threats to bats. Here, we aimed to develop a systematic mapping to identify publication trends and research gaps in studying bats and agricultural systems. Methods We reviewed 309 studies published between 1990 and 2021 that sampled bats in agricultural systems or evaluated the effect of these systems on these animals. Results We found that most studies were conducted in the Palearctic and Neotropical regions (55.3%) and forest biomes (66.0%). Gra

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Xavier, Bruna Silva, Ana Rainho, Ana M. C. Santos, Marcus Vinícius Vieira, and William Douglas Carvalho. "Global systematic map of research on bats in agricultural systems." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 (June 7, 2023): 1214176. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13427673.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Introduction The conversion of natural habitats to agricultural systems is one of the main global threats to bats. Here, we aimed to develop a systematic mapping to identify publication trends and research gaps in studying bats and agricultural systems. Methods We reviewed 309 studies published between 1990 and 2021 that sampled bats in agricultural systems or evaluated the effect of these systems on these animals. Results We found that most studies were conducted in the Palearctic and Neotropical regions (55.3%) and forest biomes (66.0%). Gra

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Xavier, Bruna Silva, Ana Rainho, Ana M. C. Santos, Marcus Vinícius Vieira, and William Douglas Carvalho. "Global systematic map of research on bats in agricultural systems." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 (July 3, 2023): 1214176. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13427673.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Introduction The conversion of natural habitats to agricultural systems is one of the main global threats to bats. Here, we aimed to develop a systematic mapping to identify publication trends and research gaps in studying bats and agricultural systems. Methods We reviewed 309 studies published between 1990 and 2021 that sampled bats in agricultural systems or evaluated the effect of these systems on these animals. Results We found that most studies were conducted in the Palearctic and Neotropical regions (55.3%) and forest biomes (66.0%). Gra

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Xavier, Bruna Silva, Ana Rainho, Ana M. C. Santos, Marcus Vinícius Vieira, and William Douglas Carvalho. "Global systematic map of research on bats in agricultural systems." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 (July 10, 2023): 1214176. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13427673.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Introduction The conversion of natural habitats to agricultural systems is one of the main global threats to bats. Here, we aimed to develop a systematic mapping to identify publication trends and research gaps in studying bats and agricultural systems. Methods We reviewed 309 studies published between 1990 and 2021 that sampled bats in agricultural systems or evaluated the effect of these systems on these animals. Results We found that most studies were conducted in the Palearctic and Neotropical regions (55.3%) and forest biomes (66.0%). Gra

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Xavier, Bruna Silva, Ana Rainho, Ana M. C. Santos, Marcus Vinícius Vieira, and William Douglas Carvalho. "Global systematic map of research on bats in agricultural systems." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 (July 17, 2023): 1214176. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13427673.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Introduction The conversion of natural habitats to agricultural systems is one of the main global threats to bats. Here, we aimed to develop a systematic mapping to identify publication trends and research gaps in studying bats and agricultural systems. Methods We reviewed 309 studies published between 1990 and 2021 that sampled bats in agricultural systems or evaluated the effect of these systems on these animals. Results We found that most studies were conducted in the Palearctic and Neotropical regions (55.3%) and forest biomes (66.0%). Gra

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Lucas, Pablo M., Manuela González‐Suárez, and Eloy Revilla. "Range area matters, and so does spatial configuration: predicting conservation status in vertebrates." Ecography 42, no. 6 (2019): 1103–14. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14822400.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The current rapid loss of biodiversity globally calls for improved tools to predict conservation status. Conservation status varies among taxa and is influenced by intrinsic species' traits and extrinsic factors. Among these predictors, the most consistently recognized and widely available is geographic range area. However, ranges of equal area can have diverse spatial configurations that reflect variation in threatening processes and species' characteristics (e.g. dispersal ability), and can affect local and regional population dynamics. The

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García, Esteve-Zarzoso, Crespo, Cabellos, and Arroyo. "Influence of Native Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strains from D.O. “Vinos de Madrid” in the Volatile Profile of White Wines." Fermentation 5, no. 4 (2019): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fermentation5040094.

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Yeasts during alcoholic fermentation form a vast number of volatile compounds that significantly influence wine character and quality. It is well known that the capacity to form aromatic compounds is dependent on the yeast strain. Thus, the use of native yeast strains, besides promoting biodiversity, encourages the conservation of regional sensory properties. In this work, we studied the volatile profile of Malvar wines fermented with 102 Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strains, isolated from vineyards and cellars belonging to the D.O. “Vinos de Madrid”. The wines elaborated with different S. c

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Chehade, Ali, Lamis Chalak, Joe Merheb, et al. "Genetic and ampelographic characterization of grapevine accessions maintained in the Lebanese national collection." Advances in Horticultural Science 36, no. 3 (2022): 215–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/ahsc-13045.

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Safeguarding grapevine biodiversity is one of the main concerns in viticulture today. Management of ex situ collections requires a comprehensive characterization of the conserved germplasm to provide basic material for selection and breeding programs. In this study, the local grapevine germplasm conserved at the national collection of the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute and composed of 43 accessions was submitted to a genetic and ampelographic study. Nine ISSR primers, previously developed in grapevine, were used in this study. These primers generated a total of 51 bands, of which 77.

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Mauchamp, André, Olivier Gore, Jean-Marc Paillisson, Benjamin Bergerot, and Anne Bonis. "Delineating the influence of water conditions and landscape on plant communities in eutrophic ditch networks." Wetlands Ecology and Management 29, no. 3 (2021): 417–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11273-021-09792-x.

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AbstractMarshlands and floodplains are generally characterized by a long history of human occupation and management, with strong impacts on biodiversity. In these landscapes, ditch networks often represent the last or most significant aquatic habitat, and significantly contribute to regional biodiversity. To determine the drivers of biodiversity in ditch networks, especially the importance of the water regime, we monitored vegetation in ditches in 11 sites (independent blocks of ditch networks) of an Atlantic marshland (the Marais poitevin, France) over a 4-year period, and a panel of local en

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Hily, C., and F. Jean. "Macrobenthic biodiversity in intertidal habitats of the Iroise Biosphere Reserve (Brittany, France)." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 77, no. 2 (1997): 311–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400071691.

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Patterns of the distribution of intertidal fauna in relation to the diversity of habitats were studied in the UNESCO Man and Biosphere (MAB) reserve of the archipelago of Molene and Ouessant (west Brittany, France). A classification of environmental features was developed in order to determine species richness, abundance, biomass and trophic structure of the macrobenthic fauna in this intertidal area which covers 1120 ha. The four descriptors of the environment were: (1) substratum (rock, boulders, sediment, pebbles); (2) height on the shore, based on the macrophytic zones: Pelvetia canalicula

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Polak, Omer, and Nadav Shashar. "Economic value of biological attributes of artificial coral reefs." ICES Journal of Marine Science 70, no. 4 (2013): 904–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst014.

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Abstract Polak, O., and Shashar, N. 2013. Economic value of biological attributes of artificial coral reefs – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70: 904–912. Visitor appreciation of natural scenes such as coral reefs is well documented. However, what part the value of the biological component in these scenes plays in fostering people's enjoyment is unclear. Using the contingent valuation method (CVM), we examined divers' willingness to pay for changes in the fish and coral attributes over an artificial reef. Using image manipulations, different levels of community descriptors, such as richness, a

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Martínez-Ispizua, Eva, Ángeles Calatayud, José Ignacio Marsal, et al. "Phenotypic Divergence among Sweet Pepper Landraces Assessed by Agro-Morphological Characterization as a Biodiversity Source." Agronomy 12, no. 3 (2022): 632. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12030632.

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Traditional vegetable varieties constitute an important reservoir of biodiversity, so recovering, cultivating, and correctly classifying these landraces is part of key global heritage for the future of food security. In this study, 17 traditional pepper varieties from the Valencian Community (Spain) were characterized using 14 quantitative and 30 qualitative conventional morphological descriptors, including plant, flower, and fruit traits, in two ripening stages: green and red. As a result, landraces were grouped based mainly on their fruit morphology (G1: thin and elongated; G2: thick and rob

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Miranda, Patrícia Nakayama, José Eduardo Lahoz da Silva Ribeiro, Erick J. Corro, Izaias Brasil, Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, and Wesley Dáttilo. "Structural Stability of Ant-plant Mutualistic Networks Mediated by Extrafloral Nectaries: Looking at the Effects of Forest Fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon." Sociobiology 69, no. 3 (2022): e8261. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v69i3.8261.

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Rainforest fragmentation drastically affects biodiversity and species composition, mainly due to habitat loss. Several studies have already shown the effects of forest fragmentation on plant and ant communities. To date, however, there is limited empirical knowledge of how forest fragmentation affects ant-plant interaction in networks. We investigated the effects of the configuration of rainforest fragments on the structure of ant-plant interaction networks mediated by extrafloral nectaries (EFNs). We carried out this study in ten forest fragments, ranging in size from approximately 5 to 3,000

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Penariol, Leiza, Hermione Elly Melara de Campos Bicudo, and Lilian Madi-Ravazzi. "On the use of open or closed traps in the capture of drosophilids." Biota Neotropica 8, no. 2 (2008): 47–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1676-06032008000200004.

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The use of open or closed traps in order to standardize the drosophilid collection is still a matter of discussion among researchers. In this paper, comparative data of drosophilid collections, using open and closed traps are presented. The collections were made monthly, during one year, in one fragment of a semidecidual forest located in the São Paulo State, Brazil. The efficiency of the traps was evaluated by the use of community descriptors: population abundance and richness and diversity of species. Closed traps were more efficient than the open ones in relation to the population abundance

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Krasteva, Liliya, Stefan Neykov, Nikolaya Velcheva, et al. "Inventorying and Collecting Local Genetic Resources from Vegetable Crops for Their Conservation and Targeted Use." АГРОЗНАЊЕ 14, no. 1 (2013): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.7251/agren1301097k.

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Inventory and collection of local plant genetic resources from Bulgarian and Chinese flora was carried out by implementing the bilateral research project between Bulgaria and China, with the focus on their preservation and targeted use. During the years 2011 and 2012 several expeditions in rural areas of South Bulgaria were conducted. The inventory of the areas was performed using a GPS system. The National collection was enriched with 134 local vegetable accessions and 98 valuable genotypes originating from China. Collected materials are listed in the National Register PHYTO'2000, according t

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