Seasonal patterns of taxonomic and functional beta diversity in submerged macrophytes at a fine scale.

ABSTRACT: Spatiotemporal variation in community composition is of considerable interest in ecology. However, few studies have focused on seasonal variation patterns in taxonomic and functional community composition at the fine scale. As such, we conducted seasonal high-density sampling of the submerged macrophyte community in Hongshan Bay of Erhai Lake in China and used the generalized dissimilarity model (GDM) to evaluate the effects of environmental factors and geographic distance on taxonomic and functional beta diversity as well as corresponding turnover and nestedness components. At the fine scale, taxonomic turnover and nestedness as well as functional turnover and nestedness showed comparable contributions to corresponding taxonomic and functional beta diversity, with different importance acr

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8293774 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature