Environmental filtering and spatial processes equally contributed to macroinvertebrate metacommunity dynamics in the highly urbanized river networks in Shenzhen, South China

Environmental filtering and spatial processes equally contributed to macroinvertebrate metacommunity dynamics in the highly urbanized river networks in Shenzhen, South China

Abstract Background Disentangling the relative roles of environmental filtering and spatial processes in structuring ecological communities is a central topic in metacommunity ecology. Metacommunity ecology in the temperate river ecosystems has been well developed, while less attention has been paid...

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Main Authors: Zhenyuan Liu, Tingting Zhou, Yongde Cui, Zhengfei Li, Weimin Wang, Yushun Chen, Zhicai Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-04-01
Series:Ecological Processes
Subjects:
Community assembly
Seasonal variation
Macroinvertebrate metacommunity
Environmental filtering
Spatial processes
Urban river
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-021-00297-2

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-021-00297-2

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