Use cases tagged with "species diversity"
Plant feeding promotes diversity in the Crustacea
Poore et al. (2017) showed that the ability to eat seaweeds and plants promotes diversity among crustaceans, just as it does among herbivorous insects. The records from OBIS for each clade were analysed to estimate range size, latitudinal range and ...
Mapping knowledge gaps in marine diversity reveals a latitudinal gradient of missing species richness
In a study published in Nature Communications in November 2018, researchers from Federal University of Goiás explored global spatial patterns in species richness by analyzing more than 3 million occurrence records of almost 35,000 marine species from OBIS and other ...
