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Do communities exist? Complex patterns of overlapping marine species distributions
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Leaper, R and Dunstan, PK and Foster, SD and Barrett, NS and Edgar, GJ, Do communities exist? Complex patterns of overlapping marine species distributions, Ecology, 95, (7) pp. 2016-2025. ISSN 0012-9658 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Understanding the way in which species are associated in communities is a
fundamental question in ecology. Yet there remains a tension between communities as highly
structured units or as coincidental collections of individualistic species. We explored these
ideas using a new statistical approach that clusters species based on their environmental
response: a species archetype, rather than clustering sites based on their species composition.
We found groups of species that are consistently highly correlated, but that these groups are
not unique to any set of locations and overlap spatially. The species present at a single site are
a realization of species from the (multiple) archetype groups that are likely to be present at
that location based on their response to the environment.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | species archetype, ecological community, temperate rocky reef fishes, marine ecology |
Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Ecology |
Research Field: | Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology) |
Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
Objective Group: | Marine systems and management |
Objective Field: | Marine biodiversity |
UTAS Author: | Leaper, R (Dr Rebecca Leaper) |
UTAS Author: | Barrett, NS (Associate Professor Neville Barrett) |
UTAS Author: | Edgar, GJ (Professor Graham Edgar) |
ID Code: | 93218 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 13 |
Deposited By: | Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration |
Deposited On: | 2014-07-18 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-02 |
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