Publications by authors named "Wan-Hsuan Cheng"
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- Ecosystem functions are more impacted by biodiversity loss when focusing on specific functions rather than broad ones, mainly because specific functions often rely on fewer species.
- This study analyzed 33 ecosystem functions over three years in a freshwater ecosystem, using regression models to assess the roles of specific species and substrate complexity.
- The results showed that taxon-based functional specificity (related to the richness of key species) is a stronger indicator of functional redundancy than substrate-based complexity, offering a framework to better predict how biodiversity loss affects ecosystem performance.
Many studies indicate that variation of marine bacterial beta diversity in the horizontal dimension is mainly attributable to environmental and spatial effects. However, whether and how these two effects drive bacterial beta diversity in the vertical dimension remains unclear, especially when considering seasonal variation in the strength of water stratification. Here, we used 78 paired bacterioplankton community samples from surface and deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM) layers along a transect in the Kuroshio region east of Taiwan across multiple seasons.
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