Scale‐dependent patterns of metacommunity structuring in aquatic organisms across floodplain systems
Scale‐dependent patterns of metacommunity structuring in aquatic organisms across floodplain systems is a scholarly work by Tadeu Siqueira, Jani Heino, Janet Higuti, Koen Martens, and Claudia Costa Bonecker, published in 2020 in ''Journal of Biogeography''. The main subjects of the publication include beta diversity, mangrove forest, metacommunity, floodplain, spatial ecology, ecology, biological dispersal, environmental science, biology, biodiversity, Marine microorganism, Temporal scales, geography, and bacterioplankton. The authors applied a series of partial redundancy analyses to estimate the relative contributions of environmental factors, spatial factors and hydrological period for each biological group.ResultsAt the fine spatial scale, predominantly environmental factors and hydrological period structure metacommunities, although less so for microorganisms than for micro‐invertebrates and macro‐organisms.