Co-occurrence patterns and the large-scale spatial structure of benthic communities in seagrass meadows and bare sand.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Species distribution models are commonly used tools to describe diversity patterns and support conservation measures. There is a wide range of approaches to developing SDMs, each highlighting different characteristics of both the data and the ecology of the species or assemblages represented by the data. Yet, signals of species co-occurrences in community data are usually ignored, due to the assumption that such structuring roles of species co-occurrences are limited to small spatial scales and require experimental studies to be detected. Here, our aim is to explore associations among marine sandy-bottom sediment inhabitants and test for the structuring effect of seagrass on co-occurrences among these species across a New Zealand intertidal sandflat, using a joint species distri

SUBMITTER: Kraan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7346362 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature