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Wooden Homes on the Seafloor Yield Insights Into the Impacts of Climate Change

Dr. M September 12, 2018 climate change diversity donuts Invertebrate mmmm....donuts Niche Wood Fall wood puns

Nearly two miles below the ocean’s surface, we are building new worlds. You might be surprised that these ecospheres are wooden—little log cabins hosting a…

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Great Abyssal Diversity Among the Microscopic

Dr. M January 19, 2010 abyss donuts Microbe microbial operational taxonomic unit Organisms rare biosphere

An area the size of a coffee table on the deep-sea floor would yield hundreds of species. A few species would dominate with numbers in…

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Biodiversity Pt. 2: Mmmmm…donuts

Dr. M May 3, 2009 alpha diversity beta diversity diversity donuts gamma diversity power law function species species-area curve Whittaker 1972

Diversity is a matter of area. This is because there is a well-known relationship between species and area, called rather cleverly the species-area curve. You…

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