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Cantera I, Jézéquel C, Dejean T, Murienne J, Vigouroux R, Valentini A, Brosse S. Deforestation strengthens environmental filtering and competitive exclusion in Neotropical streams and rivers. Proc Biol Sci 2023; 290:20231130. [PMID: 37700645 PMCID: PMC10498049 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023] Open
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Understanding how anthropization impacts the assembly of species onto communities is pivotal to go beyond the observation of biodiversity changes and reveal how disturbances affect the environmental and biotic processes shaping biodiversity. Here, we propose a simple framework to measure the assembly processes underpinning functional convergence/divergence patterns. We applied this framework to northern Amazonian fish communities inventoried using environmental DNA in 35 stream sites and 64 river sites. We found that the harsh and unstable environmental conditions characterizing streams conveyed communities towards functional convergence, by filtering traits related to food acquisition and, to a lower extent, dispersal. Such environmental filtering also strengthened competition by excluding species having less competitive food acquisition traits. Instead, random species assembly was more marked in river communities, which may be explained by the downstream position of rivers facilitating the dispersion of species. Although fish assembly rules differed between streams and river fish communities, anthropogenic disturbances reduced functional divergence in both ecosystems, with a reinforcement of both environmental filtering and weaker competitor exclusion. This may explain the substantial biodiversity alterations observed under slight deforestation levels in Neotropical freshwater ecosystems and underlines their vulnerability to anthropic disturbances that not only affect species persistence but also modify community assembly rules.
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- Isabel Cantera
- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR5174, Université Paul Sabatier, CNRS, IRD, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR5174, Université Paul Sabatier, CNRS, IRD, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- SPYGEN, 17 rue du Lac Saint-André Savoie Technolac, BP 274, 73375 Le Bourget-du-Lac, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR5174, Université Paul Sabatier, CNRS, IRD, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- HYDRECO, Laboratoire Environnement de Petit Saut, BP 823, 97388 Kourou Cedex, French Guiana
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- SPYGEN, 17 rue du Lac Saint-André Savoie Technolac, BP 274, 73375 Le Bourget-du-Lac, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR5174, Université Paul Sabatier, CNRS, IRD, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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Chen X, Li Z, Boda P, Fernandes IM, Xie Z, Zhang E. Environmental filtering in the dry season and spatial structuring in the wet: different fish community assembly rules revealed in a large subtropical floodplain lake. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:69875-69887. [PMID: 35578083 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-20529-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Although environmental filtering and spatial structuring are commonly regarded as two key factors shaping community dynamics, their relative contribution remains unknown for numerous aquatic ecosystems, particularly highly dynamic floodplain lakes. This issue is here addressed by examining the seasonal metacommunity dynamics of freshwater fishes in Lake Dongting, a large subtropical lake of the middle Chang-Jiang basin in southern China. Physicochemical variables and fish assemblages were recorded at 20 sampling sites during the wet, normal, and dry seasons. Distance-based redundancy analysis and associated variation partitioning were used to examine the relative role of environmental variables and spatial factors in fish community assembly in each season. Analysis results demonstrated that the relative contribution of environmental filtering and spatial structuring varied depending on environmental features and the extent of hydrological connectivity in different seasons. Intensified physicochemical parameters in the dry season convinced the enhanced environmental filtering, whereas high hydrological connectivity in the wet season favored the stronger spatial process. Specifically, the community assembly processes were temporally dynamic; spatial structuring (or mass effects), resulting from excessively high dispersal rates, was dominant during the flooding season, and environmental filtering was stronger than spatial structuring (or dispersal limitation) during the non-flooding season. These findings highlight the importance of conserving local habitats of Lake Dongting during the dry and normal seasons, and maintaining of the flood pulse of the lake and its natural variability during the wet season. Apparently, the construction of a water-level regulation project at the Chenglingji Channel, the outlet watercourse of Lake Dongting, is not supported because it will change the flood pulse of this lake and thus impact habitat heterogeneity or variability.
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- Xiao Chen
- The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Centre for Ecological Research, Department of Tisza Research, Danube Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary
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- Laboratório de Biodiversidade e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil
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- The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
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Xiang P, Wang X, Liu K, Wu B, Liang C, Song Z. Spatio-temporal dynamics of fish assemblage in the Datong and Xiaotong rivers, karst tributaries in the upper Yangtze River drainage: Implications for ecological adaptation and conservation of fish in rivers. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.956555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Datong and Xiaotong rivers are karst tributaries in the upper Yangtze River drainage and represent considerable habitat diversity that contributes to high fish diversity and rich fishery resources in the two rivers. During the few decades, fish resources have abruptly declined due to overfishing, water pollution and habitat degradation. In order to further strengthen conservation and restoration of fish resources and provide scientific support for fishery management in these rivers, the temporal and spatial dynamics of fish assemblage in the Datong and Xiaotong rivers were investigated in the present study. A total of 45 species were captured at 30 sample sites during four surveys conducted from March 2016 to January 2017. Species diversity and richness both increased from upstream to downstream in the two rivers. The fish assemblages significantly differed between river reaches, while did not differ in significantly between 4 months. The spatial variations in the abundance of Rhynchocypris oxycephalus, Zacco platypus, Triplophysa bleekeri, Sinogastromyzon szechuanensis, Platysmacheilus nudiventris, Sinibrama taeniatus, Saurogobio gymnocheilus, Pseudorasbora parva, Pseudobagrus truncates and Opsariichthys bidens were considered to contribute most to the spatial pattern of fish assemblages. The lack of a temporal pattern of the fish assemblage in the rivers might be attributed to ecological habits of short-distance migration and diversified mesohabitats with riffles and pools for fish spawning, feeding or overwintering within a very short river range. Our results suggest the spatio-temporal dynamics of fish assemblages is highly adapted to the habitat characteristics in the two karst rivers. We recommend that fish conservation of these tributaries be focused on the mesohabitats, particularly the many pools and riffles.
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Zhang C, Fujiwara M, Pawluk M, Liu H, Cao W, Gao X. Changes in taxonomic and functional diversity of fish communities after catastrophic habitat alteration caused by construction of Three Gorges Dam. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:5829-5839. [PMID: 32607193 PMCID: PMC7319164 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2020] [Revised: 04/04/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Habitat alterations that result from anthropogenic disturbance impact both the abiotic and biotic conditions of ecosystems, causing changes in biodiversity in many parts of the world. Recently, the use of functional diversity has been suggested as an approach to better evaluate the effects of such disturbance on particular communities. Here, we investigated the temporal changes in species and functional diversities of fish communities in the downstream area of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) before, during, and after impoundment. We found two regime shifts in the fish community in 2004 and 2013 following impoundment. Although taxonomic diversity declined sharply at the first regime shift, it increased at the second shift. On the other hand, functional diversity declined throughout the same period, indicating the loss of functional diversity despite increased species diversity. Our analysis also showed that the fish communities shifted from under-dispersion to over-dispersion due to both a decrease in the relative abundance of migratory fish and an increase in the number of fish adapted to the new hydrologic conditions. Our results indicated that the impacts of dams on downstream fish communities may change over time. Interactions between species may become more important when the environment is stable.
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- Chen Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of SciencesInstitute of HydrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesWuhanChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation BiologyTexas A&M UniversityCollege StationTXUSA
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- Department of Wildlife and Fisheries SciencesTexas A&M UniversityCollege StationTXUSA
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of SciencesInstitute of HydrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesWuhanChina
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of SciencesInstitute of HydrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesWuhanChina
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation of Chinese Academy of SciencesInstitute of HydrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesWuhanChina
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Bower LM, Winemiller KO. Intercontinental trends in functional and phylogenetic structure of stream fish assemblages. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:13862-13876. [PMID: 31938487 PMCID: PMC6953669 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Revised: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 10/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Understanding of community assembly has been improved by phylogenetic and trait-based approaches, yet there is little consensus regarding the relative importance of alternative mechanisms and few studies have been done at large geographic and phylogenetic scales. Here, we use phylogenetic and trait dispersion approaches to determine the relative contribution of limiting similarity and environmental filtering to community assembly of stream fishes at an intercontinental scale. We sampled stream fishes from five zoogeographic regions. Analysis of traits associated with habitat use, feeding, or both resulted in more occurrences of trait underdispersion than overdispersion regardless of spatial scale or species pool. Our results suggest that environmental filtering and, to a lesser extent, species interactions were important mechanisms of community assembly for fishes inhabiting small, low-gradient streams in all five regions. However, a large proportion of the trait dispersion values were no different from random. This suggests that stochastic factors or opposing assembly mechanisms also influenced stream fish assemblages and their trait dispersion patterns. Local assemblages tended to have lower functional diversity in microhabitats with high water velocity, shallow water depth, and homogeneous substrates lacking structural complexity, lending support for the stress-dominance hypothesis. A high prevalence of functional underdispersion coupled with phylogenetic underdispersion could reflect phylogenetic niche conservatism and/or stabilizing selection. These findings imply that environmental filtering of stream fish assemblages is not only deterministic, but also influences assemblage structure in a fairly consistent manner worldwide.
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- Luke M. Bower
- Department of Wildlife and Fisheries SciencesTexas A&M UniversityCollege StationTXUSA
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- Department of Wildlife and Fisheries SciencesTexas A&M UniversityCollege StationTXUSA
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Lechêne A, Lobry J, Boët P, Laffaille P. Change in fish functional diversity and assembly rules in the course of tidal marsh restoration. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0209025. [PMID: 30566467 PMCID: PMC6300267 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Functional trait theory provides a mechanistic framework to understand change in community composition and community assembly through time and space. Despite this, trait-based approaches have seldom been used in ecological restoration. Succession theory predicts that habitat complexity and resource availability will increase with restoration time, leading to increased functional dissimilarity among coexisting species. However, in the case of tidal marsh restoration, it is not clear whether reestablishing the harsh abiotic conditions typical of estuaries will initiate successional trajectories. We investigated monotonic changes in the functional structure of fish communities and shifts in assembly mechanisms, with tidal restoration time. A five-level gradient of ‘intertidal habitat naturalness’ was constructed from a set of artificialized (dyked), restored (with different ages) and natural intertidal sites, and used as a surrogate for restoration progress. The fish ecophases were described using ten functional traits related to food acquisition and swimming ability. The trends in six functional dimensions (identity, richness, evenness, dispersion, originality and specialization) were investigated along the naturalness gradient. Consistenly with succession theory, functional specialization, dispersion and, less markedly, richness increased with intertidal naturalness meaning that restored and natural intertidal habitats supplied fish with specific foraging and dwelling conditions absent from dyked marshes. Community assembly patterns varied with respect to traits and differed at both ends of the naturalness gradient. Dyked marshes were more affected by trait convergence possibly due to limiting resources. Environmental filtering was detected all along the naturalness gradient although the traits affected varied depending on the naturalness level of habitats. Environmental filtering tended to decrease in restored and natural intertidal habitats. Increased naturalness restored the attractivity of benthic habitats as feeding or settling grounds, promoted shelter-seeking vs. free-swimming strategists and favoured ecophases with carnivorous diets, feeding on microinvertebrates and benthic low-mobility macroinvertebrates. Approaches based on functional trait diversity have the potential to question and refine the theoretical frame of ecological restoration and to assist managers in their efforts to restore tidal wetlands.
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- Alain Lechêne
- Irstea, UR EABX, centre de Bordeaux, 50 avenue de Verdun, F-33612 Cestas cedex, France
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- Irstea, UR EABX, centre de Bordeaux, 50 avenue de Verdun, F-33612 Cestas cedex, France
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- Irstea, UR EABX, centre de Bordeaux, 50 avenue de Verdun, F-33612 Cestas cedex, France
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- EcoLab, Université de Toulouse, INP, UPS, ENSAT, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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Kuczynski L, Grenouillet G. Community disassembly under global change: Evidence in favor of the stress-dominance hypothesis. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2018; 24:4417-4427. [PMID: 29788536 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Revised: 05/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Ecological theory suggests that communities are not random combinations of species but rather the results of community assembly processes filtering and sorting species that are able to coexist together. To date, such processes (i.e., assembly rules) have been inferred from observed spatial patterns of biodiversity combined with null model approaches, but relatively few attempts have been made to assess how these processes may be changing through time. Specifically, in the context of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and global change, understanding how processes shaping communities may be changing and identifying the potential drivers underlying these changes become increasingly critical. Here, we used time series of 460 French freshwater fish communities and assessed both functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns to determine the relative importance of two key assembly rules (i.e., habitat filtering and limiting similarity) in shaping these communities over the last two decades. We aimed to (a) describe the temporal changes in both functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns, (b) determine to what extent temporal changes in processes inferred through the use of standardized diversity indices were congruent, and (c) test the relationships between the dynamics of assembly rules and both climatic and biotic drivers. Our results revealed that habitat filtering, although already largely predominant over limiting similarity, became more widespread over time. We also highlighted that phylogenetic and trait-based approaches offered complementary information about temporal changes in assembly rules. Finally, we found that increased environmental harshness over the study period (especially higher seasonality of temperature) led to an increase in habitat filtering and that biological invasions increased functional redundancy within communities. Overall, these findings underlie the need to develop temporal perspectives in community assembly studies, as understanding ongoing temporal changes could provide a better vision about the way communities could respond to future global changes.
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- Lucie Kuczynski
- UMR Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, IRD 253, CNRS 5174, UPS, ENFA, Toulouse, France
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- UMR Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, IRD 253, CNRS 5174, UPS, ENFA, Toulouse, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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Trait overdispersion and the role of sociality in the assembly of social spider communities across the Americas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:6010-6015. [PMID: 29784785 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1721464115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Among the factors that may lead to differences in resource use among closely related species, body size and morphology have been traditionally considered to play a role in community assembly. Here we argue that for animals that live and forage in groups, level of sociality, reflecting differences in group size and cooperative tendencies, can be an additional and powerful dimension separating species in niche space. We compare 50+ communities of the social spider genus Anelosimus across the Americas against a null model that accounts for known effects of biotic and abiotic factors on the distribution of social systems in the genus. We show that these communities are more overdispersed than expected by chance in either or both body size and level of sociality, traits we have previously shown to be associated with differences in resource utilization (prey size, microhabitat, and phenology). We further show that the contribution of sociality to differences in the size of the prey captured is two to three times greater than that of body size, suggesting that changes in group size and cooperative tendencies may be more effective than changes in body size at separating species in niche space.
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Patrick CJ, Yuan LL. Modeled hydrologic metrics show links between hydrology and the functional composition of stream assemblages. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2017; 27:1605-1617. [PMID: 28376283 DOI: 10.1002/eap.1554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Revised: 02/01/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Flow alteration is widespread in streams, but current understanding of the effects of differences in flow characteristics on stream biological communities is incomplete. We tested hypotheses about the effect of variation in hydrology on stream communities by using generalized additive models to relate watershed information to the values of different flow metrics at gauged sites. Flow models accounted for 54-80% of the spatial variation in flow metric values among gauged sites. We then used these models to predict flow metrics in 842 ungauged stream sites in the mid-Atlantic United States that were sampled for fish, macroinvertebrates, and environmental covariates. Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages were characterized in terms of a suite of metrics that quantified aspects of community composition, diversity, and functional traits that were expected to be associated with differences in flow characteristics. We related modeled flow metrics to biological metrics in a series of stressor-response models. Our analyses identified both drying and base flow instability as explaining 30-50% of the observed variability in fish and invertebrate community composition. Variations in community composition were related to variations in the prevalence of dispersal traits in invertebrates and trophic guilds in fish. The results demonstrate that we can use statistical models to predict hydrologic conditions at bioassessment sites, which, in turn, we can use to estimate relationships between flow conditions and biological characteristics. This analysis provides an approach to quantify the effects of spatial variation in flow metrics using readily available biomonitoring data.
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- Christopher J Patrick
- Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University Corpus Christ, Corpus Christi, TX, 78412, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University Corpus Christ, Corpus Christi, TX, 78412, USA
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Fitzgerald DB, Winemiller KO, Sabaj Pérez MH, Sousa LM. Using trophic structure to reveal patterns of trait‐based community assembly across niche dimensions. Funct Ecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Daniel B. Fitzgerald
- Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science Interdisciplinary Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Applied Biodiversity Science Program Texas A&M University College Station TX77843 USA
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- Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science Interdisciplinary Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Applied Biodiversity Science Program Texas A&M University College Station TX77843 USA
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- Department of Ichthyology Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia PA19103 USA
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- Laboratório de Ictiologia Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal do Pará Campus Universitário de Altamira Altamira Pará Brazil
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Whitney JE, Whittier JB, Paukert CP. Environmental niche models for riverine desert fishes and their similarity according to phylogeny and functionality. Ecosphere 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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- James E. Whitney
- Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences University of Missouri 302 Anheuser‐Busch Natural Resources Building Columbia Missouri 65211 USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences University of Missouri 302 Anheuser‐Busch Natural Resources Building Columbia Missouri 65211 USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences University of Missouri 302 Anheuser‐Busch Natural Resources Building Columbia Missouri 65211 USA
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Fitzgerald DB, Winemiller KO, Sabaj Pérez MH, Sousa LM. Seasonal changes in the assembly mechanisms structuring tropical fish communities. Ecology 2016; 98:21-31. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2016] [Revised: 08/05/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Daniel B. Fitzgerald
- Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Interdisciplinary Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Applied Biodiversity Sciences Program Texas A&M University College Station Texas 77843 USA
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- Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Interdisciplinary Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Applied Biodiversity Sciences Program Texas A&M University College Station Texas 77843 USA
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- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19103 USA
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- Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas Laboratório de Ictiologia Universidade Federal do Pará Campus Universitário de Altamira Altamira Pará Brazil
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