Data from: Macroecological drivers of zooplankton communities across the mountains of western North America ...

• Main Authors: Loewen, Charlie J.G., Strecker, Angela L., Larson, Gary L., Vogel, Allan, Fischer, Janet M., Vinebrooke, Rolf D., Loewen, Charlie J. G.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2018
• Subjects: Leptodiaptomus signicauda; Diaphanosoma birgei; Sida crystallina; Alona guttata; Macrocyclops albidus; Diacyclops thomasi; Epischura nevadensis; Alona affinis; Hesperodiaptomus kenai; Chydorus sphaericus; Alona rectangula; Hesperodiaptomus franciscanus; Aglaodiaptomus leptopus; Hesperodiaptomus arcticus; Bosmina longirostris; Ceriodaphnia reticulata; Mountain zooplankton; Microcyclops varicans; Eucyclops agilis; Daphnia dentifera; Holopedium gibberum; Bosmina hagmanni; Alona costata; Polyphemus pediculus; Daphnia longiremis; Alonella nana; Daphnia ambigua; Orthocyclops modestus; Leptodora kindtii; Bosmina coregoni; Daphnia pulex; Hesperodiaptomus shoshone; Simocephalus vetulus; Leptodiaptomus tyrrelli; Ceriodaphnia pulchella; Daphnia galeata; Cyclops scutifer; Skistodiaptomus oregonensis; Acanthocyclops vernalis; Leptodiaptomus sicilis; Heterocope septentrionalis; Leptodiaptomus nudus; Leptodiaptomus novamexicanus; Scapholeberis kingi; Ceriodaphnia quadrangula; Daphnia middendorffiana; Eurycercus lamellatus; Daphnia schodleri; Leptodiaptomus angustilobus; Canada; Sida; Yukon; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mr00v92; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.mr00v92

Disentangling the environmental and spatial drivers of biological communities across large scales increasingly challenges modern ecology in a rapidly changing world. Here, we investigate the hierarchical and trait-based organization of regional and local factors of zooplankton communities at a macroscale of 1,240 mountain lakes and ponds spanning western North America (California, USA, to Yukon Territory, Canada). Variation partitioning was used to test the hypothesized importance of climate, connectivity, catchment features, and exotic sportfish to zooplankton beta-diversity in the context of key functional traits (body size and reproductive dispersal potential) given the pronounced environmental heterogeneity (e.g. thermal gradients), topographic barriers, and legacy of stocked fish in mountainous regions. Dispersal limitation was inferred from multispecies patch connectivity estimates based on nearest and average distances to occupied patches. Environmental heterogeneity best explained community ... : Cumulative zooplankton occurrence and fish introduction recordsCompilation of historical zooplankton occurrence records for lakes and ponds across western North America (see Appendix 1 in Supplementary Material for details of zooplankton data handling and detailed references). FISH_STOCKING refers to introduced fish status (present/absent) at time of sampling (see Appendix 3 for details/data sources). RECENT_DATE, RECENT_REF, RESEARCH_GROUP, and #_YEARS_SAMPLED refer to the most recent confirmed zooplankton sampling date, abbreviated zooplankton sampling reference, research group or taxonomist, and number of sampling years integrated for species occurrence estimates, respectively (see Appendix 5 for further details).Loewen et al. 2018. Ecography_Data_Dryad.csv ...