Dispersal, connectivity, and local conditions determine zooplankton community composition in artificially connected ponds

Aquatic Biology

关键词: Niche;    Pond ecosystem;    Rotifer;    Cladocerans;    Dissimilarity;   

DOI  :  10.3354/ab00262

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Inter-Research

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACT: Human-induced increases in ecosystem connectivity can have metacommunity-wide impacts; however, little to no research has tested this assumption. We examined both the mass-effect and species-sorting theories in relation to zooplankton communities in ponds with or without artificial connections to other ponds. We measured the species-abundance composition of the zooplankton community, direct distances between ponds, and several environmental factors (chlorophyll

【 授权许可】

CC BY