With a little help from my friends: importance of protist-protist interactions in structuring marine protistan communities in the San Pedro Channel.

ABSTRACT: Marine protists form complex communities that are shaped by environmental and biological ecosystem properties, as well as ecological interactions between organisms. While all of these factors play a role in shaping protistan communities, the specific ways in which these properties and interactions influence protistan communities remain poorly understood. Fourteen years and 9 months of eukaryotic amplicon (18S-V4 rRNA gene) data collected monthly at the San Pedro Ocean Time-series (SPOT) station were used to evaluate the impacts that environmental and biological factors, and protist-protist interactions had on protistan community composition. Statistical analysis of the amplicon data revealed that seasonal patterns in protistan community composition were apparent, but that the environmental

SUBMITTER: Gleich SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11834403 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature