Large-scale diversity and biogeography of benthic copepods in European waters
| Autor: | Sybille Seifried, Marleen De Troch, Rony Huys, Jürgen Laudien, Leen Vandepitte, Guy De Smet, Chen Guotong, Magda Vincx, T.N. Bezerra, Borut Vriser, Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Jan Vanaverbeke, Wendy Bonne, Paul J. Somerfield, R. Herman, Edward Vanden Berghe, Christina Folkers, Nikolaos Lampadariou, Armin Rose, Gritta Veit-Köhler, Michaela Schratzberger, M. Grego, Kai Horst George |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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0106 biological sciences
Ecology biology Range (biology) 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Biogeography Meiobenthos Biodiversity 15. Life on land Aquatic Science biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Oceanography Benthic zone Species evenness 14. Life underwater Species richness Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Copepod |
| Zdroj: | EPIC3Marine Biology, ISBN: 0025-3162 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1793 0025-3162 |
| Popis: | A large-scale database concerning benthic copepods from the Arctic, Baltic Sea, North Sea, British Isles, Adriatic Sea and Crete was compiled to assess species richness, biodiversity, communities, ecological range size and biogeographical patterns. The Adriatic showed the highest evenness and the most species-rich communities. Assemblages from the North Sea, British Isles, Baltic and Crete had a lower evenness. The British Isles were characterised by impoverished communities. The ecological specificity of copepod species showed two diverging trends: higher specificity of species in more diverse assemblages was observed in the Adriatic, North Sea and Baltic. A uniformly high species specificity disregarding sample diversity was found on Crete and in the British Isles. Benthic copepod communities showed distinct patterns that clearly fit the predefined geographical regions. Communities were distinguishable and β-diversity was found to be high around Europe, indicating a high species turnover on the scale of this investigation. The British Isles and the North Sea were found to be faunistic links to the Baltic and the Arctic. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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