Data_Sheet_1_Beta Diversity of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Benthic Communities Reveals a Major Role of Stochastic Assembly Processes.docx

• Main Authors: Nelson Valdivia, José Garcés-Vargas, Ignacio Garrido, Iván Gómez, Pirjo Huovinen, Nelso P. Navarro, Erasmo C. Macaya, Luis Miguel Pardo
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Oceanography; Marine Biology; Marine Geoscience; Biological Oceanography; Chemical Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Marine Engineering; neutral drift; niche; null models; physiology; priority effects; spatial scale; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; King George Island; Fildes; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.780268.s001; https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_Sheet_1_Beta_Diversity_of_Antarctic_and_Sub-Antarctic_Benthic_Communities_Reveals_a_Major_Role_of_Stochastic_Assembly_Processes_docx/17120807

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...