Large-scale patterns in community structure of benthos and fish in the Barents Sea
Biogeographical patterns have an ecological basis, but few empirical studies possess the necessary scale and resolution relevant for investigation. The Barents Sea shelf provides an ideal study area, as it is a transition area between Atlantic and Arctic regions, and is sampled by a comprehensive su...
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ftupompeufabra:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/58847 2024-02-27T08:37:39+00:00 Large-scale patterns in community structure of benthos and fish in the Barents Sea Johannesen, Edda Jørgensen, Lis Lindal Fossheim, Maria Primicerio, Raul Greenacre, Michael Ljubin, Pavel A. Dolgov, Andrey V. Ingvaldsen, Randi B. Anisimova, Natalya A. Manushin, Igor E. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58847 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-1946-6 eng eng Springer Polar Biology. 2017 Feb;40(2):237-46 Johannesen E, Jørgensen LL, Fossheim M, Primicerio R, Greenacre M, Ljubin PA, et al. Large-scale patterns in community structure of benthos and fish in the Barents Sea. Polar Biol. 2017 Feb;40(2):237-46. DOI:10.1007/s00300-016-1946-6 1432-2056 http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-1946-6 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Community data Multivariate analysis Trawl survey Ecosystem survey Benthic fauna info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion ftupompeufabra https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-1946-6 2024-01-31T00:22:29Z Biogeographical patterns have an ecological basis, but few empirical studies possess the necessary scale and resolution relevant for investigation. The Barents Sea shelf provides an ideal study area, as it is a transition area between Atlantic and Arctic regions, and is sampled by a comprehensive survey of all major functional groups. We studied spatial variation in species composition of demersal fish and benthos to elucidate how fish and benthos communities co-varied in relation to environmental variables. We applied co-correspondence analysis on presence–absence data of 64 fishes and 302 benthos taxa from 329 bottom trawl hauls taken at the Barents Sea ecosystem survey in August–September 2011. We found highly significant similarities in the spatial pattern of distribution of benthos and fishes, despite their differences in motility and other ecological traits. The first common ordination axis separated boreal species in the south-west (Atlantic temperate water) from Arctic species in the north-east (Arctic cold water, ice-covered in winter). The second common axis separated shallow bank species from species found in deep basins and trenches. Our results show that fish and benthos communities had a similar relationship to the environmental gradients at the scale of hundreds to thousands of kilometres. We further discussed how fish–benthos interactions vary between sub-regions in the Barents Sea based on species traits and a food web topology for the Barents Sea. This study forms a basis for further investigations on links between fish and benthos communities in the Barents Sea. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Barents Sea Polar Biology UPF Digital Repository (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Arctic Barents Sea Polar Biology 40 2 237 246 |
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Community data Multivariate analysis Trawl survey Ecosystem survey Benthic fauna Johannesen, Edda Jørgensen, Lis Lindal Fossheim, Maria Primicerio, Raul Greenacre, Michael Ljubin, Pavel A. Dolgov, Andrey V. Ingvaldsen, Randi B. Anisimova, Natalya A. Manushin, Igor E. Large-scale patterns in community structure of benthos and fish in the Barents Sea |
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Biogeographical patterns have an ecological basis, but few empirical studies possess the necessary scale and resolution relevant for investigation. The Barents Sea shelf provides an ideal study area, as it is a transition area between Atlantic and Arctic regions, and is sampled by a comprehensive survey of all major functional groups. We studied spatial variation in species composition of demersal fish and benthos to elucidate how fish and benthos communities co-varied in relation to environmental variables. We applied co-correspondence analysis on presence–absence data of 64 fishes and 302 benthos taxa from 329 bottom trawl hauls taken at the Barents Sea ecosystem survey in August–September 2011. We found highly significant similarities in the spatial pattern of distribution of benthos and fishes, despite their differences in motility and other ecological traits. The first common ordination axis separated boreal species in the south-west (Atlantic temperate water) from Arctic species in the north-east (Arctic cold water, ice-covered in winter). The second common axis separated shallow bank species from species found in deep basins and trenches. Our results show that fish and benthos communities had a similar relationship to the environmental gradients at the scale of hundreds to thousands of kilometres. We further discussed how fish–benthos interactions vary between sub-regions in the Barents Sea based on species traits and a food web topology for the Barents Sea. This study forms a basis for further investigations on links between fish and benthos communities in the Barents Sea. |
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Johannesen, Edda Jørgensen, Lis Lindal Fossheim, Maria Primicerio, Raul Greenacre, Michael Ljubin, Pavel A. Dolgov, Andrey V. Ingvaldsen, Randi B. Anisimova, Natalya A. Manushin, Igor E. |
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Large-scale patterns in community structure of benthos and fish in the Barents Sea |
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Large-scale patterns in community structure of benthos and fish in the Barents Sea |
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Polar Biology. 2017 Feb;40(2):237-46 Johannesen E, Jørgensen LL, Fossheim M, Primicerio R, Greenacre M, Ljubin PA, et al. Large-scale patterns in community structure of benthos and fish in the Barents Sea. Polar Biol. 2017 Feb;40(2):237-46. DOI:10.1007/s00300-016-1946-6 1432-2056 http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-1946-6 |
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