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10. Chondrogenic differentiation of ChM‐I gene transfected rat bone marrow‐derived mesenchymal stem cells on 3‐dimensional poly ( L ‐lactic acid) scaffold for cartilage engineering

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Xing, Shuang‐Chun, primary, Liu, Yang, additional, Feng, Y., additional, Jiang, Chen, additional, Hu, Yu‐Qiang, additional, Sun, Wei, additional, Wang, Xin‐Hui, additional, Wei, Zhi‐Yong, additional, Qi, Min, additional, Liu, Jing, additional, Zhai, Li‐Jie, additional, and Wang, Zhi‐Qiang, additional

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2014
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11. Species turnover in ant assemblages is greater horizontally than vertically in the world's tallest tropical forest

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Shuang Xing, Amelia S. C. Hood, Roman J. Dial, Tom M. Fayle, Xing, Shuang [0000-0001-5956-6904], Dial, Roman J [0000-0002-8189-7248], Fayle, Tom M [0000-0002-1667-1189], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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distance‐decay, Ecology, species turnover, habitat complexity, vertical stratification, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, community ecology, microclimate, Nature and Landscape Conservation
Abstract

Abiotic and biotic factors structure species assembly in ecosystems both horizontally and vertically. However, the way community composition changes along comparable horizontal and vertical distances in complex three-dimensional habitats, and the factors driving these patterns, remains poorly understood. By sampling ant assemblages at comparable vertical and horizontal spatial scales in a tropical rainforest, we tested hypotheses that predicted differences in vertical and horizontal turnover explained by different drivers in vertical and horizontal space. These drivers included environmental filtering, such as microclimate (temperature, humidity, and photosynthetic photon flux density) and microhabitat connectivity (leaf area), which are structured differently across vertical and horizontal space. We found that both ant abundance and richness decreased significantly with increasing vertical height. Although the dissimilarity between ant assemblages increased with vertical distance, indicating a clear distance-decay pattern, the dissimilarity was higher horizontally where it appeared independent of distance. The pronounced horizontal and vertical structuring of ant assemblages across short distances is likely explained by a combination of microclimate and microhabitat connectivity. Our results demonstrate the importance of considering three-dimensional spatial variation in local assemblages and reveal how highly diverse communities can be supported by complex habitats.

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2022

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