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 (104044), José Garcés-Vargas (8925569), Ignacio Garrido (582333), Iván Gómez (582335), Pirjo Huovinen (582334), Nelso P. Navarro (11788628), Erasmo C. Macaya (7493987), Luis Miguel Pardo (10397165)
• 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

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...