Species interactions drive continuous assembly of freshwater communities in stochastic environments.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the factors driving the maintenance of long-term biodiversity in changing environments is essential for improving restoration and sustainability strategies in the face of global environmental change. Biodiversity is shaped by both niche and stochastic processes, however the strength of deterministic processes in unpredictable environmental regimes is highly debated. Since communities continuously change over time and space-species persist, disappear or (re)appear-understanding the drivers of species gains and losses from communities should inform us about whether niche or stochastic processes dominate community dynamics. Applying a nonparametric causal discovery approach to a 30-year time series containing annual abundances of benthic invertebrates across 66 locations in New

SUBMITTER: Tabi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11411068 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature