Interspecific relationship of patchiness to occupancy and abundance, as exemplified by seagrass macrobenthos

The macroecological abundance-occupancy relationship is well known; not so the potential one of patchiness with either or both. Following earlier work on the intertidal seagrass Zostera capensis in South Africa, interspecific macrofaunal patchiness-occupancy and patchiness-abundance relationships we...

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Autor principal:	R.S.K. Barnes
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Patchiness Occupancy Seagrass Macrobenthos Knysna Moreton Bay Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:05d505ecd0914426bea94a15f22555b12021-12-01T04:34:32ZInterspecific relationship of patchiness to occupancy and abundance, as exemplified by seagrass macrobenthos1470-160X10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107083https://doaj.org/article/05d505ecd0914426bea94a15f22555b12021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X20310220https://doaj.org/toc/1470-160XThe macroecological abundance-occupancy relationship is well known; not so the potential one of patchiness with either or both. Following earlier work on the intertidal seagrass Zostera capensis in South Africa, interspecific macrofaunal patchiness-occupancy and patchiness-abundance relationships were investigated within each of a number of other seagrass systems (intertidal Cymodocea serratula, Halodule uninervis, Halophila ovalis, Zostera muelleri and Z. noltei, and subtidal Z. capensis) where faunal assemblages were markedly different in their overall abundance and species richness, and where the beds differed in their latitude, longitude, and other variables, including one in an artificial canal in a residential marina. Notwithstanding these differences, in all cases the more abundant and widespread the macrobenthic species, the less was its Lloyd's Ip patchiness, the more clearly so in respect of occupancy than of abundance. Correlation of Ip and mean crowding (Ic) values was relatively poor, and often not significant. This suggests that patchiness of a species is more influenced by unoccupancy levels than by even marked variation in abundance at occupied sites (e.g. Ic values of <0.3–>380). Indeed, values of Ip were closely correlated with the expression [a.unoccupancy + (1−a).Ic], where a is >0.80. In all cases, component macrofaunal species displayed a significant or near significant negative patchiness-occupancy relationship in the form of a power-law with a mean scaling coefficient across sites of −0.76, although data points appeared highly scattered. There was little uniformity amongst the component species in the life-style of the most patchy, most widespread or most abundant.R.S.K. BarnesElsevierarticlePatchinessOccupancySeagrassMacrobenthosKnysnaMoreton BayEcologyQH540-549.5ENEcological Indicators, Vol 121, Iss , Pp 107083- (2021)
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topic	Patchiness Occupancy Seagrass Macrobenthos Knysna Moreton Bay Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	Patchiness Occupancy Seagrass Macrobenthos Knysna Moreton Bay Ecology QH540-549.5 R.S.K. Barnes Interspecific relationship of patchiness to occupancy and abundance, as exemplified by seagrass macrobenthos
description	The macroecological abundance-occupancy relationship is well known; not so the potential one of patchiness with either or both. Following earlier work on the intertidal seagrass Zostera capensis in South Africa, interspecific macrofaunal patchiness-occupancy and patchiness-abundance relationships were investigated within each of a number of other seagrass systems (intertidal Cymodocea serratula, Halodule uninervis, Halophila ovalis, Zostera muelleri and Z. noltei, and subtidal Z. capensis) where faunal assemblages were markedly different in their overall abundance and species richness, and where the beds differed in their latitude, longitude, and other variables, including one in an artificial canal in a residential marina. Notwithstanding these differences, in all cases the more abundant and widespread the macrobenthic species, the less was its Lloyd's Ip patchiness, the more clearly so in respect of occupancy than of abundance. Correlation of Ip and mean crowding (Ic) values was relatively poor, and often not significant. This suggests that patchiness of a species is more influenced by unoccupancy levels than by even marked variation in abundance at occupied sites (e.g. Ic values of <0.3–>380). Indeed, values of Ip were closely correlated with the expression [a.unoccupancy + (1−a).Ic], where a is >0.80. In all cases, component macrofaunal species displayed a significant or near significant negative patchiness-occupancy relationship in the form of a power-law with a mean scaling coefficient across sites of −0.76, although data points appeared highly scattered. There was little uniformity amongst the component species in the life-style of the most patchy, most widespread or most abundant.
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title	Interspecific relationship of patchiness to occupancy and abundance, as exemplified by seagrass macrobenthos
title_short	Interspecific relationship of patchiness to occupancy and abundance, as exemplified by seagrass macrobenthos
title_full	Interspecific relationship of patchiness to occupancy and abundance, as exemplified by seagrass macrobenthos
title_fullStr	Interspecific relationship of patchiness to occupancy and abundance, as exemplified by seagrass macrobenthos
title_full_unstemmed	Interspecific relationship of patchiness to occupancy and abundance, as exemplified by seagrass macrobenthos
title_sort	interspecific relationship of patchiness to occupancy and abundance, as exemplified by seagrass macrobenthos
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Interspecific relationship of patchiness to occupancy and abundance, as exemplified by seagrass macrobenthos

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