Beta Diversity of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Benthic Communities Reveals a Major Role of Stochastic Assembly Processes

Beta Diversity of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Benthic Communities Reveals a Major Role of Stochastic Assembly Processes

Community assembly is the result of both, deterministic and stochastic processes. The former encompasses niche-based local-scale mechanisms such as environmental filtering and biotic interactions; the latter includes ecological drift, probabilistic colonisation, and random extinctions. Using standar...

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Main Authors: Nelson Valdivia, José Garcés-Vargas, Ignacio Garrido, Iván Gómez, Pirjo Huovinen, Nelso P. Navarro, Erasmo C. Macaya, Luis Miguel Pardo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
neutral drift
niche
null models
physiology
priority effects
spatial scale
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.780268/full

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