Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory

Gansfort B, Fontaneto D, Zhai M (2020)
Hydrobiologia 847: 2645–2663.

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Gansfort, BirgitUniBi; Fontaneto, Diego; Zhai, Marie
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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.
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2020
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Hydrobiologia
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847
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2645–2663
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0018-8158
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1573-5117
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Gansfort B, Fontaneto D, Zhai M. Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory. Hydrobiologia. 2020;847:2645–2663.
Gansfort, B., Fontaneto, D., & Zhai, M. (2020). Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory. Hydrobiologia, 847, 2645–2663. doi:10.1007/s10750-020-04185-2
Gansfort, Birgit, Fontaneto, Diego, and Zhai, Marie. 2020. “Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory”. Hydrobiologia 847: 2645–2663.
Gansfort, B., Fontaneto, D., and Zhai, M. (2020). Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory. Hydrobiologia 847, 2645–2663.
Gansfort, B., Fontaneto, D., & Zhai, M., 2020. Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory. Hydrobiologia, 847, p 2645–2663.
B. Gansfort, D. Fontaneto, and M. Zhai, “Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory”, Hydrobiologia, vol. 847, 2020, pp. 2645–2663.
Gansfort, B., Fontaneto, D., Zhai, M.: Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory. Hydrobiologia. 847, 2645–2663 (2020).
Gansfort, Birgit, Fontaneto, Diego, and Zhai, Marie. “Meiofauna as a model to test paradigms of ecological metacommunity theory”. Hydrobiologia 847 (2020): 2645–2663.
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