Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F20%3A00116189" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/20:00116189 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10750-020-04185-2.pdf" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10750-020-04185-2.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04185-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10750-020-04185-2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory
Original language description
The metacommunity concept incorporates spatial dynamics into community ecology, shedding light on how local and regional processes interact in structuring ecological communities, and to which measure they are deterministic or stochastic. We reviewed metacommunity studies on freshwater meiobenthos published since 2004, when the main principles of metacommunity theory were conceptualized. The studies (together 19) were observational, focused mainly on ostracods, and rarely on rotifers and nematodes. In accordance with general expectations, the prevalent structuring force was species sorting. Ostracods showed more dispersal limitations than nematodes and rotifers, and there was very little support for dispersal surplus. We discussed the role of body size, dispersal mode, and attachment to sediment for the meiofauna dispersal. Effects of metacommunity context (habitat connectivity, spatial extent, and environmental heterogeneity), study design (e.g., sample size), and statistical approach could not be sufficiently disentangled due to the low number of studies. Local stochasticity, consistent with neutral theory and patch dynamics, was indicated for taxa with weak specialization and metacommunities in small habitats. Our understanding of meiofaunal metacommunities is only fragmentary and it would highly benefit from direct comparisons of taxa with different species traits and between different spatial scales, and studies incorporating temporal dynamics and hypothesis-driven experiments.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10617 - Marine biology, freshwater biology, limnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Hydrobiologia
ISSN
0018-8158
e-ISSN
1573-5117
Volume of the periodical
847
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
2645-2663
UT code for WoS article
000516145700003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85079718095