Zebra: Static and Dynamic Genome Cover Thresholds with Overlapping References by Daniel Hakim, Stephen Wandro, Karsten Zengler, Livia S. Zaramela, Brent Nowinski, Austin Swafford, Qiyun Zhu, Se Jin Song, Antonio Gonzalez, Daniel McDonald, Rob Knight

“…By compositing the metric across like samples, genome cover saturates even for rare species. We note that it is a threshold on saturated genome cover, not genome cover itself, which indicates a spurious reference hit or distant relative. …”
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Alteração florística de áreas de florestas exploradas convencionalmente em planos de manejo, nos domínios de floresta atlântica, Minas Gerais-Brasil Floristic changes in convention... by Danilo José da Silva Coelho, Agostinho Lopes de Souza

“…Following the harvest of each FMP, the comparison between forest management areas and legal reserve areas showed that, in relation to changes in diversity of the FMP tree species, the verifiers ecological group, use group and rare species group indicated that the forest management areas of all the FMPs were statistically equal (P>0.05) to the legal reserve areas. …”
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Gap analysis of Firmiana danxiaensis, a rare tree species endemic to southern China by Ruizhi LI, Xijun HU, Qizhen LI, Luyun LIU, Yuanrong HE, Cunyou CHEN

“…More than 90 % of the plant species in the genus that F. danxiaensis belongs to are rare species with a narrow distribution. The main distribution area is Mount Danxia, a representative area of China Danxia where many endemic species of the Danxia landform have been bred. …”
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Recurrent wildfires alter forest structure and community composition of terra firme Amazonian forests by Cassio Alves Pereira, Jos Barlow, Marcelo Tabarelli, Andre Luiz Giles, Amanda Estefania de Melo Ferreira, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira

“…Overall, plant communities experienced a 50%-loss of species richness after two fires, including both dominant and rare species. Plant communities also became more dissimilar as fire events accumulated, with 58%–61% increase in species dissimilarity following two fires events. …”
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Functional and taxonomic beta diversity of butterfly assemblages in an archipelago: relative importance of island characteristics, climate, and spatial factors by Shuchan Zhou, Kan Wang, Beata Messyasz, Yaoyang Xu, Meixiang Gao, Yuying Li, Naicheng Wu

“…This was caused by the high abundance of dominant species. However, rare species can promote trait diversity, trait divergence, and convergence in functional biodiversity. …”
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Biodiversity responses to land-use change in the equatorial Andes by Blanca Ríos-Touma, Paulina Rosero, Andrés Morabowen, Juan M. Guayasamin, Chelsea Carson, Santiago Villamarín-Cortez, Alejandro Solano-Ugalde, Ibon Tobes, Francisco Cuesta

“…These non-classical biodiversity metrics can provide better insight into the effect of land conversion on these highly biodiverse ecosystems composed of many rare species.…”
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Driving mechanisms of soil bacterial α and β diversity under long-term nitrogen addition: Subtractive heterogenization based on the environment selection by Zhu Yang, Handan Dai, Yongtao Huang, Biao Dong, Shenglei Fu, Chenlu Zhang, Xiaowei Li, Yuhua Tan, Xiaoxin Zhang, Xiao Zhang

“…Therefore, we formulated a conceptual framework that simultaneously considers candidate drivers including ubiquitous species, rare species, and community assembly processes to elucidate the driving mechanisms of α, β and γ diversity under N addition. …”
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Charophytes (Charophyceae, Charales) of South Kazakhstan: Diversity, Distribution, and Tentative Red List by Satbay Nurashov, Gaukhar Jumakhanova, Sophia Barinova, Roman Romanov, Elmira Sametova, Aibek Jiyenbekov, Saule Shalgimbayeva, Thomas Edward Smith

“…Altitude and water temperatures affected <i>Chara contraria</i> positively while altitude negatively influenced the rare species: <i>Chara tomentosa</i>, <i>C. kirghisorum</i>, and <i>C. dominii</i>. …”
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Addressing methodological issues in the study of tiger metapopulation dynamics in Western Ghats, India by Gopalaswamy, AM

“…The results of this exercise show much promise and offers a way of tackling the abundance estimation question in unmarked, rare species.</p> <p>3. Develops a software product called SPACECAP to make novel spatial capture-recapture methods accessible to wildlife biologists, ecologists and park managers. …”

Vertical distribution of bivalves fauna in the northwestern Tatar Strait (Japan Sea) by Р. A. Dulenina, A. A. Dulenin

“…On the other hand, portion of banal species increases and portion of specific species decreases with depth, also portion of rare species increases and portion of mass species decreases with depth, with the slope coefficients α = 9.10 ± 0.49 (p = 0.0003) and α = –4.5 ± 2.5 (p = 0.01), respectively. …”
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Scale‐Dependent Effects of Plant Diversity Drivers Across Different Grassland Habitats in Ukraine by Oksana Buzhdygan, Selina Baldauf, Dariia Borovyk, Denys Vynokurov, Emma Ladouceur, Olha Chusova, Svitlana Iemelianova, Vasyl Budzhak, Britta Tietjen, Olga Bezrodnova, Olesya Bezsmertna, Illya Chorney, Iwona Dembicz, Jürgen Dengler, Yakiv Didukh, Monika Janišová, Oleksandr Khodosovtsev, Oksana Kucher, Ivan Moysiyenko, Alla Tokariuk, Iuliia Vasheniak, Olena Yavorska, Jonathan Chase, Anna Kuzemko

“…Soil and litter effects were primarily driven by the response of locally rare species, while climate and grazing effects were driven by locally common species. …”
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Censo de aves nocturnas de Euskadi, 2018 by Iñigo Zuberogoitia, Maite Laso, Alexandra Egunez, Ainara Azkona, Sergio de Juan, Carlos González de Buitrago, Gorka Belamendia, Rosa de Siria Apaolaza, Ana Gracianteparaluceta, Izaskun Aguirre, Nober Fuente, Jordi Gómez, Emilio López, Alfonso López de Armentia, Javier López de Luzuriaga, Diego Malo, Jabi Manzano, I. Martínez, Jose Ignacio Ocariz, Silvia Prats, Rakel Santos, Brian Webster

“…The tawny owl was the most abundant and widely distributed owl species in the study area, followed a long way behind by the barn owl, Eurasian scops owl, and little owl, whereas the long-eared owl and eagle owl resulted scarce and patchily distributed, and the short-eared owl and boreal owl were rare species. European nightjars appeared in 31.1% of the SPs, whereas no records of red-necked nightjars and stone-curlews were obtained and only three woodcocks were detected during the breeding season. …”
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Woody plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity decrease along elevational gradients in Andean tropical montane forests: Environmental filtering and arrival of temper... by Guillermo Bañares-de-Dios, Manuel J. Macía, Gabriel Arellano, Íñigo Granzow-de la Cerda, Julia Vega-Álvarez, Itziar Arnelas, Carlos I. Espinosa, Norma Salinas, Luis Cayuela

“…Besides, the differences in steepness decrease between Hill orders suggest that rare species disproportionately contribute to functional diversity. …”
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Candida and Bacterial Skin Colonisation of Critically-ill Patients in Two Tertiary Healthcare Facilities in Zambia by Prof Geoffrey Kwenda, Dr John Mwaba, Ms Chalwe Sokoni, Mr Christone Kaile, Ms Faith Kabansa, Mr Darlingtone Mwenya, Ms Tshiama Mirriam Mwamba, Ms Ruth Mpembe, Dr Sabelle Jallow, Ms Rudzani Mashau, Prof Nelesh Govender, Miss Chalwe Sokoni

“…Candida colonisation was detected in 17% (23/139) of the samples, with Candida albicans being the most predominant (65%, 15/23), followed by C. glabrata (17%, 4/23), C. parapsilosis (17%, 4/23), and a rare species, C. allociferrii (4%, 1/23). One non-Candida rare yeast species, Kluyveromyces marxianus, was also isolated. …”
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Biodiversity and distribution of gelatinous macrozooplankton in the North Sea and adjacent waters - dataset from winter 2022ZENODO by Camilla Juul Dahl Jensen, Louise G. Køhler, Bastian Huwer, Malin Werner, Leslie Cieters, Cornelia Jaspers

“…In total 4882 individual specimens from samples and sub-samples were analyzed and extrapolated to 71,888 records of gelatinous macrozooplankton in the investigation area. For rare species, the entire sample was analyzed, while for abundant taxa, sub-samples were used to assess abundances. …”
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Testing the detection of large, secretive snakes using camera traps by Danielle K. Walkup, Wade A. Ryberg, Josh B. Pierce, Emlyn Smith, James Childress, Forrest East, Brian L. Pierce, Price Brown, Corey M. Fielder, Toby J. Hibbitts

“…Abstract Novel technologies, such as camera traps, have expanded the opportunities for species detection, especially for rare species. Corresponding changes in data processing must occur to handle the large volume of data gathered from technology like camera traps. …”
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Cactáceas endémicas y raras del estado de Chihuahua, México by Óscar Alejandro Viramontes-Olivas, Toutcha Lebgue-Keleng, Ricardo Abel Soto-Cruz, Miroslava Quiñónez-Martínez, Salvador Balderrama-Castañeda, Yadira Edith Aviña-Domínguez

“…Keywords: taxa, biological group, endemic and rare species. …”
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First documentation of a clinical multidrug-resistant Enterobacter chuandaensis ST2493 isolate co-harboring bla NDM-1 and two bla KPC-2 bearing plasmids by Ruyan Chen, Chenyu Li, Hao Xu, Ruishan Liu, Haoyu Ge, Jie Qiao, Yi Liu, Xiaojing Liu, Lei Fang, Yanhao Shen, Xiaobing Guo

“…In this study, we reported the emergence of carbapenemase in a rare species, Enterobacter chuandaensis, belonging to the Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC). …”
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ESTRUCTURA Y DIVERSIDAD FLORISTICA DE DOS BOSQUES NATURALES (BUENOS AIRES, DPTO CAUCA, COLOMBIA) ESTRUTURA E DIVERSIDADE FLORÍSTICA DE DUAS FLORESTAS NATURAIS NO MUNICIPIO DE BUENO... by CATALINA GARCÍA, CAROLINA SUAREZ, MARISELA DAZA

“…Species-area curve (floristic richness) did not show an inflection point, where new species were not found, due to the fact that most of them are rare species.…”
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A targeted liquid cultivation method for previously uncultured non-colony forming microbes by Eun-Young Seo, Eun-Young Seo, Eun-Young Seo, Dawoon Jung, Dawoon Jung, Dawoon Jung, Slava S. Epstein, Weiyan Zhang, Jeffrey S. Owen, Hiroaki Baba, Akina Yamamoto, Mifuyu Harada, Yutaka Nakashimada, Yutaka Nakashimada, Setsu Kato, Setsu Kato, Yoshiteru Aoi, Yoshiteru Aoi, Shan He, Shan He

“…From soil samples, isolates belonging to Acidobacteriota and Armatimonadota (which are known as rare species among identified isolates) were exclusively isolated by NCFLC. …”
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