Metacommunity simulations for diatom assemblages residing in benthic cyanobacterial mats in Fryxell Basin in Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Eric R Sokol, J E Barrett, Tyler J Kohler, Diane M McKnight, Mark R Salvatore, Lee F Stanish
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2020
• Subjects: Antarctica; McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER; Taylor Valley; Fryxell Basin; Monte Carlo simulation; diatom; cyanobacteria mats; biodiversity; Antarctic; Fryxell; Lake Fryxell; McMurdo Dry Valleys; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/597/2

Here, we use MCSim, a spatially explicit metacommunity simulation package for R, to test alternative hypotheses about the roles of dispersal and species sorting in maintaining the biodiversity of diatom assemblages residing in black and orange mats in Fryxell Basin in Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dr...