Publications by authors named "Qingming Wei"
With increasing urbanization, the importance of urban areas in biodiversity conservation grows. However, traditional conservation efforts are often based on high species richness, may underestimate the value of evolutionary potentials and functional traits that species could provide for the ecosystem processes. In this study, we draw priority maps to capture the priority areas of avian taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity using a relativity-based prioritization approach.
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- Habitat fragmentation in urban areas creates selection pressures on ant populations, leading to significant morphological differences among individuals found in separate parks.
- Researchers used pitfall trapping to objectively analyze functional traits and discovered these ants exhibited varying phenotypic traits across urban parks.
- Findings indicate that habitat degradation in urban landscapes limits phenotypic diversity and alters the morphological characteristics of ant populations, emphasizing a need for further studies on diverse ant taxa to understand their responses to urban segregation.