DISTRIBUTION OF LACUSTRINE PLANKTON CRUSTACEANS AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF BIODIVERSITY IN CHILE

datacite.alternateIdentifier.citationCRUSTACEANA,Vol.94,933-950,2021
datacite.alternateIdentifier.doi10.1163/15685403-bja10134
datacite.creatorRivera, Reinaldo
datacite.creatorPinochet, Javier
datacite.creatorDe los Rios-Escalante, Patricio
datacite.creatorHernandez, Cristian E.
datacite.date2021
datacite.subject.englishgeometric restrictions
datacite.subject.englishspecies richness
datacite.subject.englishnestedness
datacite.subject.englishextinction-colonization dynamics
datacite.subject.englishzooplanktonic crustaceans
datacite.subject.englishRapoport
datacite.titleDISTRIBUTION OF LACUSTRINE PLANKTON CRUSTACEANS AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF BIODIVERSITY IN CHILE
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-04T18:44:47Z
dc.date.available2021-10-04T18:44:47Z
dc.description.abstractThe pattern of species richness and its potential causes are fundamental knowledge for an adequate management of biodiversity. In the present study, based on georeferenced lacustrine zooplankton, we evaluated the general species richness pattern and its relationship with hydrographic zonation, assessing four hypotheses: (1) the Rapoport latitudinal effect; (2) geometric restrictions as hard limits to geographical dispersion; (3) nestedness as a measure of the historical dynamics of extinction-colonization; and (4) environmental variables, as a measurement of the habitat as a recent ecological factor. Our results show a heterogeneous species richness pattern, with maxima located between 32-34 degrees S, showing a general decrease towards higher latitudes. However, this pattern does not relate to the Rapoport latitudinal effect or the geometric restrictions. Instead, the pattern is associated with historical extinction-colonization dynamics between the waterbodies and ecological factors such as landscape, water, and energy availability that determine the number of species that these waterbodies can currently support.
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositoriodigital.uct.cl/handle/10925/4228
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBRILL
dc.sourceCRUSTACEANA
oaire.resourceTypeArticle
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