Biodiversity analyses: are aquatic ecologists doing any better and differently than terrestrial ecologists?

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dc.contributor.authorSiqueira, Tadeu [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorBini, Luis Mauricio
dc.contributor.authorThomaz, Sidinei Magela
dc.contributor.authorFontaneto, Diego
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
dc.contributor.institutionInstitute of Ecosystem Study (ISE)
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-21T13:13:14Z
dc.date.available2015-10-21T13:13:14Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-01
dc.description.abstractSpecies richness is a key variable in biodiversity analyses, being often analyzed as either a response or an explanatory variable. We addressed whether biodiversity studies conducted in aquatic habitats (including both freshwater and marine habitats) differed substantially from those conducted in terrestrial habitats. Using a systematic literature search, we show that aquatic and terrestrial ecologists use species richness predominantly as a response variable. However, the number of studies in terrestrial systems was greater than the number of studies in aquatic habitats. The amount of variance in species richness explained by the statistical models was similar-around 59%. The frequency of citation was also similar between terrestrial and aquatic studies. The sample sizes of studies conducted in aquatic habitats were significantly lower than those of studies conducted in terrestrial habitats. Both aquatic and terrestrial ecologists tend to use a large number of explanatory variables to model species richness. We conclude that the differences between the ways aquatic and terrestrial ecologists conduct biodiversity studies were not substantial; their impacts on the scientific community were similar; and there is a need to increase the focus on theory-driven analyses. We recommend that research efforts on the mechanisms underlying species richness variation in aquatic systems should be intensified.en
dc.description.affiliationLaboratório de Ecologia Teórica e Síntese, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, GO, CEP 74001-970, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationNupelia, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, PEA-UEM, Av. Colombo, 5790, Maringá, PR, CEP 87020-900, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationCNR Institute of Ecosystem Study (ISE), Largo Tonolli 50, 28922, Verbania, Pallanza, Italy.
dc.description.affiliationUnespDepartamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.description.sponsorshipConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP: 2013/50424-1
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCNPq: 480933/2012-0
dc.identifierhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10750-014-2071-6
dc.identifier.citationHydrobiologia. Dordrecht: Springer, v. 750, n. 1, p. 5-12, 2015.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10750-014-2071-6
dc.identifier.issn0018-8158
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/128761
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000350244600002
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofHydrobiologia
dc.relation.ispartofjcr2.165
dc.relation.ispartofsjr0,896
dc.rights.accessRightsAcesso restrito
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.subjectCoefficient of determinationen
dc.subjectCross-ecosystem analysisen
dc.subjectBibliometricsen
dc.subjectSpecies richnessen
dc.titleBiodiversity analyses: are aquatic ecologists doing any better and differently than terrestrial ecologists?en
dc.typeArtigo
dcterms.licensehttp://www.springer.com/open+access/authors+rights?SGWID=0-176704-12-683201-0
dcterms.rightsHolderSpringer
unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-5069-2904[1]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0003-3398-9399[2]
unesp.author.orcid0000-0002-5770-0353[4]
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claropt

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