Drivers of the spatiotemporal patterns of the mangrove crab metacommunity in a tropical bay.

ABSTRACT: Revealing community patterns and driving forces is essential in community ecology and a prerequisite for effective management and conservation efforts. However, the mangrove ecosystem and its important fauna group such as the crabs, still lack multi-processes research under metacommunity framework, resulting in evidence and theorical application gaps. To fill these gaps, we selected China's most representative mangrove bay reserve in tropical zone as a stable experimental system and conducted a seasonal investigation (July 2020, October 2020, January 2021, and April 2021) of mangrove crabs. We performed a multi-approach analysis using both pattern-based and mechanistic method to distinguish the processes driving the mangrove crab metacommunity. Our results showed that the crab metacommunit

SUBMITTER: Gu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10266579 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature