Local-regional richness relationship in fouling assemblages - Effects of succession.

Canning-Clode, João, Bellou, N., Kaufmann, M. J. and Wahl, Martin (2009) Local-regional richness relationship in fouling assemblages - Effects of succession. Basic and Applied Ecology, 10 . pp. 745-753. DOI 10.1016/j.baae.2009.05.005.

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Abstract

The number of species in a local habitat depends on local and regional processes. One common approach to explore ecological saturation of local richness has been to plot local versus regional richness. We expand this approach by incorporating two dimensions of diversity - taxonomic and functional - and different successional ages of marine fouling communities. In four different biogeographic regions (Mediterranean Sea, NE Atlantic, Western Baltic Sea and North Sea) 60 experimental units made from artificial substratum were deployed for colonization. Local richness was assessed as the average number of species and functional groups (FG) per unit area while regional richness was estimated as the estimated (Jack 2) asymptote of the accumulation curves for species or FG in local panel communities. Our findings indicate that the nature of the relationship between local and regional diversity is sensitive to successional stage and the dimension of diversity considered. However, as a general pattern, for taxonomic and functional richness, the slope of the local-regional relationship increased in the course of succession. We discuss how this pattern could have been produced by a combination of low number of recruiting species and incomplete competitive exclusion as is typical for early Succession

Document Type: Article
Keywords: Local richness, Regional richness, Functional diversity, Biofouling, Saturation, Jackknife estimator
Research affiliation: OceanRep > The Future Ocean - Cluster of Excellence
OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB3 Marine Ecology > FB3-EOE-B Experimental Ecology - Benthic Ecology
Refereed: Yes
Open Access Journal?: No
Publisher: Urban & Fischer; Elsevier
Projects: GAME, Future Ocean
Date Deposited: 06 Jan 2010 08:47
Last Modified: 21 Jan 2019 13:14
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/107

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