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Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size
Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size
- Source :
- Scopus, RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo, instname, Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2018), Nature Communications, 9 (1), Nature Communications, e-IEO. Repositorio Institucional Digital de Acceso Abierto del Instituto Español de Oceanografía
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- ETH Zurich, 2018.
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Abstract
- Villarino, Ernesto ... et al.-- 13 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables, supplementary material https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02535-8<br />Global patterns of planktonic diversity are mainly determined by the dispersal of propagules with ocean currents. However, the role that abundance and body size play in determining spatial patterns of diversity remains unclear. Here we analyse spatial community structure - β-diversity - for several planktonic and nektonic organisms from prokaryotes to small mesopelagic fishes collected during the Malaspina 2010 Expedition. β-diversity was compared to surface ocean transit times derived from a global circulation model, revealing a significant negative relationship that is stronger than environmental differences. Estimated dispersal scales for different groups show a negative correlation with body size, where less abundant large-bodied communities have significantly shorter dispersal scales and larger species spatial turnover rates than more abundant small-bodied plankton. Our results confirm that the dispersal scale of planktonic and micro-nektonic organisms is determined by local abundance, which scales with body size, ultimately setting global spatial patterns of diversity<br />This research was funded by the project Malaspina 2010 Circumnavigation Expedition (Consolider-Ingenio 2010, CSD2008-00077) and cofounded by the Basque Government (Department Deputy of Agriculture, Fishing and Food Policy). [...] E.V. was supported by a PhD Scholarship granted by the Iñaki Goenaga−Technology Centres Foundation
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Acuicultura
Oceans and Seas
Science
Fishing
Population
General Physics and Astronomy
Library science
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Circumnavigation
Article
Zooplankton
03 medical and health sciences
Centro Oceanográfico de Canarias
Animals
Body Size
education
lcsh:Science
education.field_of_study
Government
Multidisciplinary
fungi
Fishes
Hesperides
General Chemistry
Biodiversity
Plankton
language.human_language
Scholarship
030104 developmental biology
Geography
Scale (social sciences)
Phytoplankton
Food policy
language
lcsh:Q
human activities
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scopus, RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo, instname, Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2018), Nature Communications, 9 (1), Nature Communications, e-IEO. Repositorio Institucional Digital de Acceso Abierto del Instituto Español de Oceanografía
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1ce0b4293bd4964670e01232d88ca1ea
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000371227