Search Results - "Kembel, Steven W"

Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships by Laforest-Lapointe, Isabelle, Paquette, Alain, Messier, Christian, Kembel, Steven W.

“…A tree biodiversity and ecosystem function experiment shows that leaf bacterial diversity is positively related to plant community productivity, and explains a…”
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Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution by Webb, Campbell O., Ackerly, David D., Kembel, Steven W.

“…Motivation: The increasing availability of phylogenetic and trait data for communities of co-occurring species has created a need for software that integrates…”
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Incorporating 16S gene copy number information improves estimates of microbial diversity and abundance by Kembel, Steven W, Wu, Martin, Eisen, Jonathan A, Green, Jessica L

“…The abundance of different SSU rRNA ("16S") gene sequences in environmental samples is widely used in studies of microbial ecology as a measure of microbial…”
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Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest by Kembel, Steven W., O'Connor, Timothy K., Arnold, Holly K., Hubbell, Stephen P., Wright, S. Joseph, Green, Jessica L.

“…The phyllosphere—the aerial surfaces of plants, including leaves—is a ubiquitous global habitat that harbors diverse bacterial communities. Phyllosphere…”
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Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology by Kembel, Steven W., Cowan, Peter D., Helmus, Matthew R., Cornwell, William K., Morlon, Helene, Ackerly, David D., Blomberg, Simon P., Webb, Campbell O.

“…Picante is a software package that provides a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing the phylogenetic and trait diversity of ecological communities. The…”
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global meta‐analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities by Siefert, Andrew, Violle, Cyrille, Chalmandrier, Loïc, Albert, Cécile H, Taudiere, Adrien, Fajardo, Alex, Aarssen, Lonnie W, Baraloto, Christopher, Carlucci, Marcos B, Cianciaruso, Marcus V, L. Dantas, Vinícius, Bello, Francesco, Duarte, Leandro D. S, Fonseca, Carlos R, Freschet, Grégoire T, Gaucherand, Stéphanie, Gross, Nicolas, Hikosaka, Kouki, Jackson, Benjamin, Jung, Vincent, Kamiyama, Chiho, Katabuchi, Masatoshi, Kembel, Steven W, Kichenin, Emilie, Kraft, Nathan J. B, Lagerström, Anna, Bagousse‐Pinguet, Yoann Le, Li, Yuanzhi, Mason, Norman, Messier, Julie, Nakashizuka, Tohru, Overton, Jacob McC, Peltzer, Duane A, Pérez‐Ramos, I. M, Pillar, Valério D, Prentice, Honor C, Richardson, Sarah, Sasaki, Takehiro, Schamp, Brandon S, Schöb, Christian, Shipley, Bill, Sundqvist, Maja, Sykes, Martin T, Vandewalle, Marie, Wardle, David A, Chase, Jonathan

“…Recent studies have shown that accounting for intraspecific trait variation (ITV) may better address major questions in community ecology. However, a general…”
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merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology by Cavender-Bares, Jeannine, Kozak, Kenneth H, Fine, Paul V.A, Kembel, Steven W

“…The increasing availability of phylogenetic data, computing power and informatics tools has facilitated a rapid expansion of studies that apply phylogenetic…”
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Glial Cell-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Induces Enteric Neurogenesis and Improves Colon Structure and Function in Mouse Models of Hirschsprung Disease by Soret, Rodolphe, Schneider, Sabine, Bernas, Guillaume, Christophers, Briana, Souchkova, Ouliana, Charrier, Baptiste, Righini-Grunder, Franziska, Aspirot, Ann, Landry, Mathieu, Kembel, Steven W., Faure, Christophe, Heuckeroth, Robert O., Pilon, Nicolas

“…Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a life-threatening birth defect in which the distal colon is devoid of enteric neural ganglia. HSCR is treated by surgical…”
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Architectural design drives the biogeography of indoor bacterial communities by Kembel, Steven W, Meadow, James F, O'Connor, Timothy K, Mhuireach, Gwynne, Northcutt, Dale, Kline, Jeff, Moriyama, Maxwell, Brown, G Z, Bohannan, Brendan J M, Green, Jessica L

“…Architectural design has the potential to influence the microbiology of the built environment, with implications for human health and well-being, but the…”
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Phylogenetic community structure and phylogenetic turnover across space and edaphic gradients in western Amazonian tree communities by Fine, Paul V. A., Kembel, Steven W.

“…Ecological and evolutionary processes influence community assembly at both local and regional scales. Adding a phylogenetic dimension to studies of species…”
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Drawing ecological inferences from coincident patterns of population‐ and community‐level biodiversity by Vellend, Mark, Lajoie, Geneviève, Bourret, Audrey, Múrria, Cesc, Kembel, Steven W, Garant, Dany

“…Biodiversity is comprised of genetic and phenotypic variation among individual organisms, which might belong to the same species or to different species…”
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Architectural design influences the diversity and structure of the built environment microbiome by Kembel, Steven W, Jones, Evan, Kline, Jeff, Northcutt, Dale, Stenson, Jason, Womack, Ann M, Bohannan, Brendan JM, Brown, G Z, Green, Jessica L

“…Buildings are complex ecosystems that house trillions of microorganisms interacting with each other, with humans and with their environment. Understanding the…”
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Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Have Significant Non-target Effects on Phyllosphere and Soil Bacterial Communities by Parizadeh, Mona, Mimee, Benjamin, Kembel, Steven W

“…The phyllosphere and soil are dynamic habitats for microbial communities. Non-pathogenic microbiota, including leaf and soil beneficial bacteria, plays a…”
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Adaptive matching between phyllosphere bacteria and their tree hosts in a neotropical forest by Lajoie, Geneviève, Maglione, Rémi, Kembel, Steven W

“…The phyllosphere is an important microbial habitat, but our understanding of how plant hosts drive the composition of their associated leaf microbial…”
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Independent evolution of leaf and root traits within and among temperate grassland plant communities by Kembel, Steven W, Cahill, Jr, James F

“…In this study, we used data from temperate grassland plant communities in Alberta, Canada to test two longstanding hypotheses in ecology: 1) that there has…”
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Experimental evaluation of the importance of colonization history in early-life gut microbiota assembly by Martínez, Inés, Maldonado-Gomez, Maria X, Gomes-Neto, João Carlos, Kittana, Hatem, Ding, Hua, Schmaltz, Robert, Joglekar, Payal, Cardona, Roberto Jiménez, Marsteller, Nathan L, Kembel, Steven W, Benson, Andrew K, Peterson, Daniel A, Ramer-Tait, Amanda E, Walter, Jens

“…The factors that govern assembly of the gut microbiota are insufficiently understood. Here, we test the hypothesis that inter-individual microbiota variation…”
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Tree phyllosphere bacterial communities: exploring the magnitude of intra- and inter-individual variation among host species by Laforest-Lapointe, Isabelle, Messier, Christian, Kembel, Steven W

“…The diversity and composition of the microbial community of tree leaves (the phyllosphere) varies among trees and host species and along spatial, temporal, and…”
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Paleotemperature proxies from leaf fossils reinterpreted in light of evolutionary history by Little, Stefan A, Kembel, Steven W, Wilf, Peter

“…Present-day correlations between leaf physiognomic traits (shape and size) and climate are widely used to estimate paleoclimate using fossil floras. For…”
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Phylogenetic diversity metrics for ecological communities: integrating species richness, abundance and evolutionary history by Cadotte, Marc W, Jonathan Davies, T, Regetz, James, Kembel, Steven W, Cleland, Elsa, Oakley, Todd H

“…Phylogenetic information is increasingly being used to understand the assembly of biological communities and ecological processes. However, commonly used…”
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Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience by Craine, Joseph M., Ocheltree, Troy W., Nippert, Jesse B., Towne, E. Gene, Skibbe, Adam M., Kembel, Steven W., Fargione, Joseph E.

“…Grasslands have always experienced drought, but future drought conditions are likely to be more severe and frequent as climates change. This study shows that…”
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