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Fig. 3 in Host biology, ecology and the environment influence microbial biomass and diversity in 101 marine fish species
Fig. 3 | Alpha diversity and biomass comparisons across ecological and biolo- gical gradients in marine fish. Comparison of microbial diversity a "Chao1", b "Faith's Phylogenetic Diversity", c "Shannon", or d microbial biomassacrossbody site (gill, skin, midgut, and hindgut). Distributions in "red" are median with inter- quartile range. Statistical differences determined using non-parametric testing Kruskal–Wallistest with 0.05 FDR Benjamini–Hochberg. Further testing computed for each unique body site for a variety of biological and ecological metadata categories. Metadata whichis e categorical istestedusing Kruskal–Wallis f whereas numeric metadata tested using Spearmancorrelation. Onlysignificant associations are represented in e (Kruskal–Wallis p <0.05) and f (Spearman p <0.05). KW or KW stat "H" test statistic from Kruskal–Wallis test, MG midgut, HG hindgut, Faith PD Faith's Phylogenetic Diversity metric, GI:TL gastrointestinal length to fish total length "ratio", TL total length of fish.
Fig. 4 in Host biology, ecology and the environment influence microbial biomass and diversity in 101 marine fish species
Fig. 4 | Associations between fishmass and collection location as measuredby and d distance from shore with gill microbial biomass. e Comparison of fish mass distancefrom shorewith fishgill microbialbiomassand alphadiversity. Subset and f distancefromshorewithalpha diversitymetrics (Chao1).g Comparison of fish of fish from EPO and Atlantic (n = 54) collected from ocean (excludes bay and mass and h distance from shore with alpha diversity metric: Faith's PD. estuary samples) and from the neritic zone (<200 m depth). a Correlation matrix c–h (Confidenceintervalsof 95% aredisplayedasdotted lines). habita- between sample metadata where values are rho and significance indicated by t_act_collection refers to the metadata column name from where this habitat clas- *p <0.05, **p <0.01, ***p <0.001, ****p <0.0001 (Spearmancorrelation). sification can be found…, SZsurf zone, RIT rocky intertidal, RST rocky subtidal, IS b Comparison of gill microbial biomass (log cells per gram) across habitat types inner shelf, KBRF kelp bed rocky reef, MDRF mid depth rocky reef, CP coastal from which the fish were collected. Distribution is in median and interquartile pelagic, P pelagic. Mass_g_log = log 10 (mass of the fish in grams), dis- range. Statistical differences determined using non-parametric testing tance_from_shore_m_log = log 10 (distance from nearest point on shore in meters Kruskal–Wallistest with 0.05 FDRBenjamini–Hochberg. c Comparison of fish mass from where the fish was caught).
Fig. 2 in Host biology, ecology and the environment influence microbial biomass and diversity in 101 marine fish species
Fig. 2 | Limit of detection, sample exclusion, and microbial biomassestimation for FMP101 dataset. a Application of KatharoSeq formula to calculate limit of detection of microbiota platesusing the Bacillus/Paracoccus mock community (1150 reads at 90%). b Limit of detection based on cell counts of Bacillus/ Paracoccus mock community (~16 cells into extraction at 90%). c Model fit of the log(sequencing read counts) of positive extraction controls vs. the log cell counts of those positive extraction controls (empirically determined using plate counts. The linear regression of the line is indicative of the quality of method to estimate microbial biomass from sequencing read counts. Con- fidenceintervalsof 95% aredisplayedas dottedlines. Thismethodissimilar to a qPCR curvewherethe log (Ct) would beequivalent to the log(read counts).This equation is then used to estimate the number of "microbial density" of the existing samples which is then further normalized by the volume of the DNA extraction,biomass of materialgoinginto theextraction and finallynormalized to at estimated microbial cells per gram of tissue. d Community analysis comparison and validation of compositionality of controls of twosets of mock community controls (section 1 = Bacillus/Paracoccus mock community; section 2 = zymo mock community). Putative contaminant g__Geobacillus identified (presentin 93% of negatives and higherrelative abundance ascompared to positives and samples). e Number of samples successful across the four body sites collected from the broad fish microbiota dataset. QC quality control, g__ refers to a genus of bacteria, HM mock homemade mock or human made mixture of bacteria to use as a control whereas zymo mock = mock microbial community created by a company "Zymo".
Fig. 1 in Host biology, ecology and the environment influence microbial biomass and diversity in 101 marine fish species
Fig. 1 | Samplingdesignof 116 speciesof marine fish. a Using ArcGIS todepictthe general area from which fish were sampled: black dots indicate the locations of the 101 unique species of marine fish sampled from the California Current Ecosystem in the Eastern Pacific Ocean primarily in the waters of San Diego CA. Red circles depict the locations of an additional 17 species of fish (15 unique species with 2 species duplicates) collected from the Western Atlantic primarily in the waters of New York. When multiple species of fish were caught in the same location, a single circle is used to indicate the location. b Fish were sampled across a gradient of depth and distances from shore. c Biometric measurements taken for nearly all fish include total length, fork length, mass, gape, and GI length. Various ratios from these lengths were also calculated. Microbiota samples from the gill were primarily whole tissue specimens from the entire left second gill arch or a section of the top middle and bottom of the entire filament. Skin mucus samples were taken by scraping using a razor blade. Midgut digesta material was collected from directly posterior of the stomach or if stomach was absent, the beginning of the GI tract. Hindgut digesta samples were taken from near the anus. Image from phylopic. MG midgut, HG hindgut, GI gastrointestinal tract, m meters.
Data from: Quantifying and estimating ecological network diversity based on incomplete sampling data
<p>An ecological network refers to the ecological interactions among sets of species. Quantification of ecological network diversity and related sampling/estimation challenges have explicit analogues in species diversity research. A unified framework based on Hill numbers and their generalizations was developed to quantify taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity. Drawing on this unified framework, we propose three dimensions of network diversity that incorporate the frequency (or strength) of interactions, species' phylogenies and traits. As with surveys in species inventories, nearly all network studies are based on sampling data and thus also suffer from under-sampling effects. Adapting the sampling/estimation theory and the iNEXT (interpolation/extrapolation) standardization developed for species diversity research, we propose the iNEXT.link method to analyze network sampling data. The proposed method integrates the following four inference procedures: (i) Assessment of sample completeness of networks, (ii) asymptotic analysis via estimating the true network diversity, (iii) non-asymptotic analysis based on standardizing sample completeness via rarefaction and extrapolation with network diversity, and (iv) estimation of the degree of unevenness or specialization in networks based on standardized diversity. Interaction data between European trees and saproxylic beetles are used for illustrating the proposed procedures. The software iNEXT.link is developed to facilitate all computations and graphics.</p>
Data, code, and supplementary materials for Pearman P. B., Broennimann, O., et al. Monitoring species genetic diversity in Europe varies greatly and overlooks potential climate change impacts. Nature Ecology & Evolution
<p>The repository contains several archives of digital materials that were used and/or produced in the analyses presented in Pearman, P. B. and Broennimann et al. Monitoring species genetic diversity in Europe varies greatly and overlooks potential climate change impacts. <strong>Nature Ecology & Evolution</strong>, likely 2023. These archives include (1) Supplementary Materials files ; (2) Data and code to generate country-level maps and plots; and (3) data and code to generate all maps of species and joint climate niche marginality, all in G-zipped tar archives. Readme files are available in each archive to guide running of the scripts and identification of objects in the Supplementary Materials. Please see the paper for all co-authors names, and the methods, the results obtained, and discussion of their implications.</p> <p>This work is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague Michael Bruford (1963-2023).</p>
Figure 5 in A review of amphidromous freshwater fishes of the Chocó biogeographical region (Colombia and Ecuador): diversity, ecology, fisheries and conservation
Figure 5. – Representative habitat of freshwater amphidromous fishes in western of Colombia. A: photo of Valle River, 20 m collection site; B: Photo of Aguaclara River (Anchicayá Basin), 70 m collection site; C: Representative habitat in which post-larval Awaous transandeanus, Hemieleotris latifasciata, Hemieleotris levis and Sicydium spp. were collected in western Colombia. Photo of San Juan River, 18 m collection site; D: Type locality of Sicydium hildebrandi, photo of Dagua River in Cisneros, 350 m collection site.
Species ecology explains the various spatial components of genetic diversity in tropical reef fishes
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Data from: Ecological trait divergence over evolutionary time underlies the origin and maintenance of tropical spider diversity
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Vegetation and vantage point influence visibility across diverse ecosystems: implications for animal ecology
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Data from: Fractal triads efficiently sample ecological diversity and processes across spatial scales
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Data from: Quantifying and estimating ecological network diversity based on incomplete sampling data
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Data from: Deep learning reveals hidden diversity of <em>Synechococcus</em> in the coastal water of China: Novel clades and their ecological insights
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Data from: Coincident transitions across elevation and origins of functional innovations drove the phenotypic and ecological diversity of lungless salamanders
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Environmental correlates of phenotypic evolution in ecologically diverse Liolaemus lizards
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Social data from "Ecology, The Economy of Nature" (10th edition, 2025): Addressing diversity in undergraduate ecology textbooks"
This data package includes social data on the diversity and composition of people depicted in the text, photographs, and illustrations of the ecology textbook Ecology: The Economy of Nature (10th ed.) by Relyea (2025). The data were utilized in an article published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, which explores the use of undergraduate textbooks as tools for building a diverse community of ecologists (Richards et al., 2025). Relyea, R. (2025). Ecology: The Economy of Nature (10th ed.). W.H. Freeman. ISBN 9781319524838 Richards JH, Charton KT, McFarlane SL, Widell AF, Haddad NM, Wyer MB, Damschen EI (2025) Rethinking the undergraduate textbook as a tool to build a diverse community of ecologists. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 23(3), e2819, https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2819.
No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites
<p>Recent reports of dramatic declines in insect abundance suggest grave consequences for global ecosystems and human society. Most evidence comes from Europe, however, leaving uncertainty about insect population trends worldwide. We used > 5,300 time series for insects and other arthropods, collected over 4-36 years at monitoring sites representing 68 different natural and managed areas, to search for evidence of declines across the United States. Some taxa and sites showed decreases in abundance and diversity while others increased or were unchanged, yielding net abundance and biodiversity trends generally indistinguishable from zero. This lack of overall increase or decline was consistent across arthropod feeding groups, and was similar for heavily disturbed versus relatively natural sites. The apparent robustness of U.S. arthropod populations is reassuring. Yet, this result does not diminish the need for continued monitoring and could mask subtler changes in species composition that nonetheless endanger insect-provided ecosystem services. </p>
Phylogenetic and ecological correlates of pollen morphological diversity in a neotropical rainforest
Morphology varies enormously across clades, and the morphology of a trait may reflect ecological function or the retention of ancestral features. We examine the tension between ecological and phylogenetic correlates of morphological diversity through a case study of pollen grains produced by angiosperms in Barro Colorado Island, Panama (BCI). Using a molecular phylogeny of 730 taxa we demonstrate a statistically significant association between morphological and genetic distance for these plants. However, the relationship is non-linear, and while close relatives share more morphological features than distant relatives, above a genetic distance of ~0.7 increasingly distant relatives are not more divergent in phenotype. The pollen grains of biotically pollinated and abiotically pollinated plants overlap in morphological space, but certain pollen morphotypes and individual morphological traits are unique to these pollination ecologies. Our data show that the pollen grains of biotically pollinated plants are significantly more morphologically diverse than those of abiotically pollinated plants.
Breaking ecological barriers: anthropogenic disturbance leads to habitat transitions, hybridization, and high genetic diversity
<p>Genetic diversity is expected to erode in disturbed habitats through strong selection, local extinctions, and recolonization associated with genetic bottlenecks and restricted gene flow. Despite this general prediction and over three decades of population genetics studies, our understanding of the long-term effect of environmental disturbance on local and regional genetic diversity remains limited. We conducted a population genetic survey of the microcrustacean <i>Daphnia</i> across a landscape subject to anthropogenic stressors from a century of industrial mining. At the local scale we found moderate genetic diversity (i.e., low clonal diversity), characteristic of habitat-specific selective sweeps and local extinctions, but high diversity and strong genetic structure at the regional scale despite the shared watershed of many lakes and exceptional dispersal ability of daphniids. Many habitats experienced changes in species assemblages, with the obligate asexual <i>Daphnia pulex</i> lineages—known only to inhabit ponds—dominating disrupted urban lakes. This habitat transition (pond to lake) was likely facilitated by the disruption of ecological barriers maintaining the genomic separation of these young species. Thus, disrupted habitats can exhibit complex and unexpected genetic patterns of local extinctions and recolonizations, followed by habitat transitions, hybridization and potential speciation events that are difficult to predict and should not be underestimated.</p>
Ecological data from: Combining botanical collections and ecological data to better describe plant community diversity
<p>In this age of rapid biodiversity loss, we must continue to refine our approaches to describing variation in life on Earth. Combining knowledge and research tools from multiple disciplines is one way to better describe complex natural systems. Understanding plant community diversity requires documenting both pattern and process. We must first know which species exist, and where (i.e., taxonomic and biogeographic patterns), before we can determine why they exist there (i.e., ecological and evolutionary processes). Floristic botanists often use collections-based approaches to elucidate biodiversity patterns, while plant ecologists use hypothesis-driven statistical approaches to describe underlying processes. Because of these different disciplinary histories and research goals, floristic botanists and plant ecologists often remain siloed in their work. Here, using a case study from an urban greenway in Colorado, USA, we illustrate that the collections-based, opportunistic sampling of floristic botanists is highly complementary to the transect- or plot-based sampling of plant ecologists. We found that floristic sampling captured a community species pool four times larger than that captured using ecological transects, with rarefaction and non-parametric species estimation indicating that it would be prohibitive to capture the "true" community species pool if constrained to sampling within transects. We further illustrate that the discrepancy in species pool size between approaches led to a different interpretation of the greenway's ecological condition in some cases (e.g., transects missed uncommon cultivated species escaping from nearby gardens) but not others (e.g., plant species distributions among functional groups were similar between species pools). Finally, we show that while using transects to estimate plant relative abundances necessarily trades off with a fuller assessment of the species pool, it is an indispensable indicator of ecosystem health, as evidenced by three non-native grasses contributing to 50% of plant cover along the highly modified urban greenway. We suggest that actively fostering collaborations between floristic botanists and ecologists can create new insights into the maintenance of species diversity at the community scale.</p>
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