Beyond a single patch: local and regional processes explain diversity patterns in a seagrass epifaunal metacommunity
Keila A Stark, Patrick L Thompson, Jennifer Yakimishyn, Lynn Lee, Emily M Adamczyk, Margot Hessing-Lewis, Mary I O'Connor
The paper examines how local and regional ecological processes shape diversity in seagrass epifaunal communities, finding that dispersal and environmental factors have limited influence compared to biotic interactions.
bioRxiv · Jul 10, 2020Ecology