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Influence of grazing and solar panel installation on tenebrionid beetles (Coleo...
Tsafack, Noelline; Fang, Wei; Wang, Xingyu; Xie, Yingzhong; Wang, Xinpu; Fattorini, SimoneGrazing may represent a major threat to biodiversity in arid grasslands. The increasing use of grasslands for solar parks may represent a new important threat. No study has investigated the effects of solar parks on soil insects. Tenebrionids are a major component of the arthropod fauna of grasslands of central Asia. These ecosystems are threatened by grazing and increasing land use for solar parks. Aim of this...
Niche overlap and species co-occurrence patterns in carabid communities of the ...
Tsafack, Noelline; Wang, Xinpu; Xie, Yingzhong; Fattorini, SimoneUnderstanding how species sort themselves into communities is essential to explain the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity. Important insights into potential mechanisms of coexistence may be obtained from observation of non-random patterns in community assembly. The spatial niche overlap (Pianka index) and co-occurrence (c-score) patterns in carabid species in three types of steppes (desert steppe, typical st...
Emergent Rarity Properties in Carabid Communities From Chinese Steppes With Dif...
Tsafack, Noelline; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Xie, Yingzhong; Wang, Xinpu; Fattorini, SimoneSpecies abundance distributions (SADs) are increasingly used to investigate how species community structure changes in response to environmental variations. SAD models depict the relative abundance of species recorded in a community and express fundamental aspects of the community structure, namely patterns of commonness and rarity. However, the influence of differences in environmental conditions on SAD charac...