Phytochemical diversity drives plant–insect community diversity

Phytochemical Diversity of Eremostachys laciniata Bunge Populations in Iran

COMMUNITY AND DIVERSITY 1 Diversity and Community Can Co - exist

We examine the (in)compatibility of diversity and sense of community by means of agent-based models based on the well-known Schelling model of residential segregation and Axelrod model of cultural dissemination. We find that diversity and highly clustered social networks, on the assumptions of social tie formation based on spatial proximity and homophily, are incompatible when agent features ar...

Phenotypic diversity drives paracrine drug tolerance

Considerable clinical successes have been achieved in cancer treatment since the introduction of targeted therapies. However, almost inevitably tumors develop therapy resistance, which limits durable clinical responses. Tumors are often heterogeneous, and as a result, therapy-resistant cells are present even before the start of treatment. Resistance is commonly mediated via genetic changes. How...

Turnover diversity drives large-scale biodiversity patterns

Biogeosciences Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Biogeosciences (BG). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in BG if available. Abstract Understanding biodiversity patterns and how they are driven at different spatial scales is a crucial issue in ecological studies. This is particularly evident for the deep sea, the largest biome of the biosphere...

Intraspecific variability drives diversity in food webs

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, 735 State St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA. Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Seestrasse 79, Kastanienbaum CH-6047, Switzerland. Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucı́a (CSIC), Apdo. Oficial, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain. ...