A general biodiversity-function relationship is mediated by trophic level

General Anxiety and Dental Fear: Is There A Relationship?

Introduction: Anxiety is an emotional state that helps healthy people defend themselves against threats. Dental anxiety is referred to a patient's specific response to stressful dental practices. The prevalence of dental anxiety is estimated to be between 3-43%. The relation between dental caries and dental anxiety is well understood, which happen as the result...

Trophic and Non-Trophic Interactions in a Biodiversity Experiment Assessed by Next-Generation Sequencing

Plant diversity affects species richness and abundance of taxa at higher trophic levels. However, plant diversity effects on omnivores (feeding on multiple trophic levels) and their trophic and non-trophic interactions are not yet studied because appropriate methods were lacking. A promising approach is the DNA-based analysis of gut contents using next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. ...

Detritus, trophic dynamics and biodiversity

John C. Moore,* Eric L. Berlow, David C. Coleman, Peter C. de Ruiter, Quan Dong, Alan Hastings, Nancy Collins Johnson, Kevin S. McCann, Kim Melville, Peter J. Morin, Knute Nadelhoffer, Amy D. Rosemond, David M. Post, John L. Sabo, Kate M. Scow, Michael J. Vanni and Diana H. Wall Detritus Dynamics Working Group, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA ...

Determination of the Relationship Between Biodiversity and Trophic Status of Wahiawa Reservoir

Trophic complementarity drives the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in food webs.

The biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationship is central in community ecology. Its drivers in competitive systems (sampling effect and functional complementarity) are intuitive and elegant, but we lack an integrative understanding of these drivers in complex ecosystems. Because networks encompass two key components of the BEF relationship (species richness and biomass flow), they pr...