Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms.

By T. Bie, L. De Meester, L. Brendonck, Koen Martens, B. Goddeeris, D. Ercken, H. Hampel, L. Denys, L. Vanhecke, K. Gucht and 3 more. Ecology Letters, 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography

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PAPER Community assembly processes shape an altitudinal gradient of forest biodiversity (2013, background): “In this study, we highlight different groups of organisms (woody plants and oribatid mites) because taxon-specific factors may be important in structuring communities (e.g. dispersal mode and habitat requirements; De Bie et al., 2012).”
Analysing eco‐evolutionary dynamics—The challenging complexity of the real world (2019, background): “Many processes scale with body size (Peters, 1986), and there is evidence for such a scaling in metacommunity ecology (De Bie et al., 2012).”
A meta‐analysis of nestedness and turnover components of beta diversity across organisms and ecosystems (2018, result): “The second finding, specifically found for passively dispersed taxa, disagrees with De Bie et al. (2012), who documented that in passively dispersed taxa, the spatial imprint in community compositional variation increased with body size in pond communities.”
How do freshwater organisms cross the “dry ocean”? A review on passive dispersal and colonization processes with a special focus on temporary ponds (2015, background): “…we review the literature related to the passive dispersal of organisms producing resting stages among inland lentic ecosystems, with special emphasis to temporary ponds, which represent ‘‘isolated’’ ecosystems both in space and in time, and are characterized by high levels of biological diversity.”
Integrating dispersal proxies in ecological and environmental research in the freshwater realm (2017, neutral): “While this idea is partly supported by empirical findings 160 (De Bie et al. 2012; Padial et al. 2014; Datry et al. 2016a), some studies have also found little 161 Page 8 of 70 https://mc06.manuscriptcentral.com/er-pubs Environmental Reviews Draft 9 support for it (Jenkins et al. 2007).”
Assembly mechanisms determining high species turnover in aquatic communities over regional and continental scales (2016, background): “…work in lentic systems suggests that niche processes, rather than dispersal limitation, primarily determine the species and genetic composition of aquatic plants and zooplankton communities (Shurin 2000, De Meester et al. 2002, Cottenie et al. 2003, O’Hare et al. 2012; but see De Bie et al. 2012).”