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...
Published in: | Frontiers in Marine Science |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.780268 https://doaj.org/article/f188f015ef9f4c6cbfe2ff93ccc568ab |