Regional-scale drivers of marine nematode distribution in Southern Ocean continental shelf sediments
Many marine meiofauna taxa seem to possess cosmopolitan species distributions, despite their endobenthic lifestyle and restricted long-distance dispersal capacities. In light of this paradox we used a metacommunity framework to study spatial turnover in free-living nematode distribution and assess t...
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ftunivgent:oai:archive.ugent.be:8558867 2023-06-11T04:06:12+02:00 Regional-scale drivers of marine nematode distribution in Southern Ocean continental shelf sediments Hauquier, Freija Verleyen, Elie Tytgat, Bjorn Vanreusel, Ann 2018 application/pdf https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8558867 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8558867 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2018.04.005 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8558867/file/8572975 eng eng https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8558867 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8558867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2018.04.005 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8558867/file/8572975 No license (in copyright) info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY ISSN: 0079-6611 Biology and Life Sciences Earth and Environmental Sciences Antarctica Free-living marine nematoda Community ecology Continental shelf Dispersal Environmental filtering Variation partitioning DEEP-SEA BIODIVERSITY SPATIAL PROCESSES BETA DIVERSITY DISPERSAL LIMITATION COMMUNITY DYNAMICS SPECIES-DIVERSITY NEIGHBOR MATRICES PATTERNS METACOMMUNITIES MEIOFAUNA journalArticle info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2018 ftunivgent https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2018.04.005 2023-05-10T22:27:27Z Many marine meiofauna taxa seem to possess cosmopolitan species distributions, despite their endobenthic lifestyle and restricted long-distance dispersal capacities. In light of this paradox we used a metacommunity framework to study spatial turnover in free-living nematode distribution and assess the importance of local environmental conditions in explaining differences between communities in surface and subsurface sediments of the Southern Ocean continental shelf. We analysed nematode community structure in two sediment layers (0-3 cm and 3-5 cm) of locations maximum 2400 km apart. We first focused on a subset of locations to evaluate whether the genus level is sufficiently taxonomically fine-grained to study large-scale patterns in nematode community structure. We subsequently used redundancy and variation partitioning analyses to quantify the unique and combined effects of local environmental conditions and spatial descriptors on genus-level community composition. Macroecological patterns in community structure were highly congruent at the genus and species level. Nematode community composition was highly divergent between both depth strata, likely as a result of local abiotic conditions. Variation in community structure between the different regions largely stemmed from turnover (i.e. genus/species replacement) rather than nestedness (i.e. genus/species loss). The level of turnover among communities increased with geographic distance and was more pronounced in subsurface layers compared to surface sediments. Variation partitioning analysis revealed that both environmental and spatial predictors significantly explained variation in community structure. Moreover, the shared fraction of both sets of variables was high, which suggested a substantial amount of spatially structured environmental variation. Additionally, the effect of space independent of environment was much higher than the effect of environment independent of space, which shows the importance of including spatial descriptors in meiofauna and ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Southern Ocean Ghent University Academic Bibliography Southern Ocean Progress in Oceanography 165 1 10 |
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Biology and Life Sciences Earth and Environmental Sciences Antarctica Free-living marine nematoda Community ecology Continental shelf Dispersal Environmental filtering Variation partitioning DEEP-SEA BIODIVERSITY SPATIAL PROCESSES BETA DIVERSITY DISPERSAL LIMITATION COMMUNITY DYNAMICS SPECIES-DIVERSITY NEIGHBOR MATRICES PATTERNS METACOMMUNITIES MEIOFAUNA |
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Biology and Life Sciences Earth and Environmental Sciences Antarctica Free-living marine nematoda Community ecology Continental shelf Dispersal Environmental filtering Variation partitioning DEEP-SEA BIODIVERSITY SPATIAL PROCESSES BETA DIVERSITY DISPERSAL LIMITATION COMMUNITY DYNAMICS SPECIES-DIVERSITY NEIGHBOR MATRICES PATTERNS METACOMMUNITIES MEIOFAUNA Hauquier, Freija Verleyen, Elie Tytgat, Bjorn Vanreusel, Ann Regional-scale drivers of marine nematode distribution in Southern Ocean continental shelf sediments |
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Biology and Life Sciences Earth and Environmental Sciences Antarctica Free-living marine nematoda Community ecology Continental shelf Dispersal Environmental filtering Variation partitioning DEEP-SEA BIODIVERSITY SPATIAL PROCESSES BETA DIVERSITY DISPERSAL LIMITATION COMMUNITY DYNAMICS SPECIES-DIVERSITY NEIGHBOR MATRICES PATTERNS METACOMMUNITIES MEIOFAUNA |
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Many marine meiofauna taxa seem to possess cosmopolitan species distributions, despite their endobenthic lifestyle and restricted long-distance dispersal capacities. In light of this paradox we used a metacommunity framework to study spatial turnover in free-living nematode distribution and assess the importance of local environmental conditions in explaining differences between communities in surface and subsurface sediments of the Southern Ocean continental shelf. We analysed nematode community structure in two sediment layers (0-3 cm and 3-5 cm) of locations maximum 2400 km apart. We first focused on a subset of locations to evaluate whether the genus level is sufficiently taxonomically fine-grained to study large-scale patterns in nematode community structure. We subsequently used redundancy and variation partitioning analyses to quantify the unique and combined effects of local environmental conditions and spatial descriptors on genus-level community composition. Macroecological patterns in community structure were highly congruent at the genus and species level. Nematode community composition was highly divergent between both depth strata, likely as a result of local abiotic conditions. Variation in community structure between the different regions largely stemmed from turnover (i.e. genus/species replacement) rather than nestedness (i.e. genus/species loss). The level of turnover among communities increased with geographic distance and was more pronounced in subsurface layers compared to surface sediments. Variation partitioning analysis revealed that both environmental and spatial predictors significantly explained variation in community structure. Moreover, the shared fraction of both sets of variables was high, which suggested a substantial amount of spatially structured environmental variation. Additionally, the effect of space independent of environment was much higher than the effect of environment independent of space, which shows the importance of including spatial descriptors in meiofauna and ... |
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Regional-scale drivers of marine nematode distribution in Southern Ocean continental shelf sediments |
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Regional-scale drivers of marine nematode distribution in Southern Ocean continental shelf sediments |
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Regional-scale drivers of marine nematode distribution in Southern Ocean continental shelf sediments |
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Regional-scale drivers of marine nematode distribution in Southern Ocean continental shelf sediments |
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Regional-scale drivers of marine nematode distribution in Southern Ocean continental shelf sediments |
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regional-scale drivers of marine nematode distribution in southern ocean continental shelf sediments |
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