Determinants of cyanobacterial species composition in the splash zone of two Croatian islands

Autor: Jan Lepš, Pavel Fibich, Jan Kaštovský, Alžběta Vondrášková
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: European Journal of Phycology. 52:179-187
ISSN: 1469-4433
0967-0262
DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2016.1246673
Popis: Cyanobacterial communities of the splash zone of two Croatian islands, Veruda and Ugljan, were surveyed. At each island, we studied eight localities with different aspects. From all 336 samples, a total of 42 cyanobacterial species, one green alga, and one red alga were found. In both islands Hyella spp. and Gloeocapsopsis crepidinum dominated and Entophysalis deusta, Solentia spp., Kyrtuthrix dalmatica and Mastigocoleus testarum were found frequently. Multivariate statistical analysis of species composition shows that the vertical gradient is the strongest determinant of species composition and that there are statistically significant but not very pronounced differences in species composition between the two islands. Species composition among individual sites within islands differed slightly, and between localities decreased rather slowly with the distance of individual samples (i.e. the similarity distance decay was very slow), showing that even close samples can have quite different species com...
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