Different Microeukaryotic Trophic Groups Show Different Latitudinal Spatial Scale Dependences in Assembly Processes across the Continental Shelves of China.

ABSTRACT: The relative role of stochasticity versus determinism is critically dependent on the spatial scale over which communities are studied. However, only a few studies have attempted to reveal how spatial scales influence the balance of different assembly processes. In this study, we investigated the latitudinal spatial scale dependences in assembly processes of microeukaryotic communities in surface water and sediment along the continental shelves of China. It was hypothesized that different microeukaryotic trophic groups (i.e., autotroph, heterotroph, mixotroph, and parasite) showed different latitudinal scale dependences in their assembly processes. Our results disclosed that the relative importance of different assembly processes depended on a latitudinal space scale for planktonic microeuk

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10821338 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature