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Hou Y, Pan B, Jiang X, Li D, Jiang W, Zhao G. Directional spatial processes override non-directional ones in structuring communities of lotic macroinvertebrates differing in dispersal ability. J Environ Manage 2022; 317:115310. [PMID: 35642809 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 05/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Dispersal is an essential natural process that influences community assembly, yet directional dispersal through wind and water may have distinctive effects. Environmental and spatial factors jointly influence community structure, but their relative importance is anticipated to vary with spatial distance, dispersal mode, and season. Accordingly, a systemic survey was conducted in subtropical Chinese mountain lotic systems to distinguish the relative contributions of environmental control and spatial structuring upon communities of macroinvertebrates with different dispersal ability. Macroinvertebrate samples were collected from the upper reaches and five tributaries of the Hanjiang River in October 2017 (autumn) and April 2018 (spring). These macroinvertebrates were identified and classified into three dispersal groups: aquatic passive (AqPa), terrestrial passive (TePa), and terrestrial active (TeAc). Variation partitioning analyses were performed on environmental factors and different sets of spatial factors (overland dispersal: Overland, directional downwind dispersal: AEM_Wind, along watercourse dispersal: Watercourse, and directional downstream dispersal: AEM_Water). Findings showed that both environmental filtering and spatial structuring influenced the structure of macroinvertebrate metacommunities. For AqPa and TePa groups, pure environmental effects were stronger than pure spatial effects based on most distance matrices; however, in AEM_Water, the effects of spatial processes surpassed those of environmental filtering. For TeAc group, the role of environmental control and spatial structuring varied depending on different spatial models. The results also highlighted seasonal shifts in metacommunity structuring processes. Spatial structures featuring direction, especially AEM_Water, were predominant in explaining the construction of macroinvertebrate communities. This work suggests that directional dispersal should be explicitly considered when examining the structure of ecological communities.
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- Yiming Hou
- State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region of China, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710048, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region of China, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710048, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region of China, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710048, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region of China, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710048, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region of China, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710048, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region of China, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710048, China
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Li Z, Xing Y, Liu Z, Chen X, Jiang X, Xie Z, Heino J. Seasonal changes in metacommunity assembly mechanisms of benthic macroinvertebrates in a subtropical river basin. Sci Total Environ 2020; 729:139046. [PMID: 32498180 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Unraveling the ecological factors that control variation in local community structure in space and time is fundamental to metacommunity ecology. In this scenario, environmental filtering and spatial processes are recognized as important drivers of community assembly, yet their relative importance is anticipated to vary for biological communities in different seasons, network positions and organisms with distinct dispersal modes. In this study, we used a dataset (macroinvertebrate communities and environmental variables) collected in different seasons from the Ganjiang River in China to test the above ideas. We divided the whole metacommunity in each season into mainstream communities, tributary communities, strictly aquatic dispersers and aquatic/aerial dispersers, and subsequently used variation partitioning to examine the relative contribution of environmental and spatial factors separately for the overall and decomposed components of the metacommunity. Our results showed that both environmental filtering and spatial processes were important drivers of variation in community structure, yet their explanatory powers varied considerably among seasons. Environmental filtering was the primary driver of metacommunity organization in most scenarios, while the effects of spatial processes surpassing environmental filtering occurred only sporadically. For communities in different network positions, tributary communities were structured by both strong environmental filtering and profound effects of spatial processes via dispersal limitation. However, communities in mainstream sites were mainly determined by environmental filtering, and the effects of spatial processes were almost negligible. Moreover, environmental filtering was clearly more important for aquatic/aerial dispersers, while spatial processes were more influential for strictly aquatic dispersers. We thus concluded that environmental filtering, spatial processes, network position and dispersal mode can interact to regulate metacommunity organization of riverine macroinvertebrates. Considering that the relative contribution of these factors varied among seasons, we strongly uphold the idea that community ecology research should go beyond one-season snapshot surveys in river networks.
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- Zhengfei Li
- The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
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- Freshwater Centre, Finnish Environment Institute, Paavo Havaksen Tie 3, P.O. Box 413, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland
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Alahuhta J, Lindholm M, Bove CP, Chappuis E, Clayton J, de Winton M, Feldmann T, Ecke F, Gacia E, Grillas P, Hoyer MV, Johnson LB, Kolada A, Kosten S, Lauridsen T, Lukács BA, Mjelde M, Mormul RP, Rhazi L, Rhazi M, Sass L, Søndergaard M, Xu J, Heino J. Global patterns in the metacommunity structuring of lake macrophytes: regional variations and driving factors. Oecologia 2018; 188:1167-1182. [PMID: 30374676 PMCID: PMC6244864 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4294-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 10/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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We studied community-environment relationships of lake macrophytes at two metacommunity scales using data from 16 regions across the world. More specifically, we examined (a) whether the lake macrophyte communities respond similar to key local environmental factors, major climate variables and lake spatial locations in each of the regions (i.e., within-region approach) and (b) how well can explained variability in the community-environment relationships across multiple lake macrophyte metacommunities be accounted for by elevation range, spatial extent, latitude, longitude, and age of the oldest lake within each metacommunity (i.e., across-region approach). In the within-region approach, we employed partial redundancy analyses together with variation partitioning to investigate the relative importance of local variables, climate variables, and spatial location on lake macrophytes among the study regions. In the across-region approach, we used adjusted R2 values of the variation partitioning to model the community-environment relationships across multiple metacommunities using linear regression and commonality analysis. We found that niche filtering related to local lake-level environmental conditions was the dominant force structuring macrophytes within metacommunities. However, our results also revealed that elevation range associated with climate (increasing temperature amplitude affecting macrophytes) and spatial location (likely due to dispersal limitation) was important for macrophytes based on the findings of the across-metacommunities analysis. These findings suggest that different determinants influence macrophyte metacommunities within different regions, thus showing context dependency. Moreover, our study emphasized that the use of a single metacommunity scale gives incomplete information on the environmental features explaining variation in macrophyte communities.
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- Janne Alahuhta
- Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
- Finnish Environment Institute, Freshwater Centre, P.O. Box 413, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
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- Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014, Oulu, Finland
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- Departamento de Botânica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio De Janeiro, RJ, 20940‒040, Brazil
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- Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), C/accés a la Cala St. Francesc 14, 17300, Blanes, Spain
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited, P.O. Box 11115, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited, P.O. Box 11115, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- Centre for Limnology, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, 61117, Rannu, Tartumaa, Estonia
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), P.O. Box 7050, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), 901 83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), C/accés a la Cala St. Francesc 14, 17300, Blanes, Spain
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- Tour du Valat, Research Institute for the conservation of Mediterranean wetlands, Le Sambuc, 13200, Arles, France
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- Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Services, University of Florida, 7922 NW 71st Street, Gainesville, FL, 32609, USA
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- Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota Duluth, 5013 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN, 55811, USA
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- Department of Freshwater Protection, Institute of Environmental Protection‒National Research Institute, Krucza 5/11D, 00-548, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Vejsøvej 25, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark
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- Department of Tisza River Research, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Bem tér 18/C, Debrecen, 4026, Hungary
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- Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Gaustadalléen 21, 0349, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biology, Research Group in Limnology, Ichthyology and Aquaculture-Nupélia, State University of Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, Bloco H90, CEP-87020-900, Mringá, PR, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Botany, Mycology and Environment, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, 4 avenue Ibn Battouta, B.P. 1014 RP, Rabat, Morocco
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Biology, Moulay Ismail University, PB 509, Boutalamine, Errachidia, Morocco
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- Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Vejsøvej 25, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Finnish Environment Institute, Biodiversity Centre, P.O. Box 413, 90014, Oulu, Finland
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