The effect of environmental gradient on biodiversity and similarity of invertebrate communities in eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds

M Namba, M Hashimoto, M Ito, K Momota… - Ecological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… that spatial variation in community structure was related to … causing spatial variation in
community structure between … species diversity and community structure of benthic invertebrates in …

The linkage between spatial and temporal variations in epifaunal and primary producer communities in eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds

M Namba, H Abe, MA Ito, M Nakaoka - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2024 - Elsevier
… This study showed that temporal and spatial variations in the community structures were
larger in the lagoon with a distinct salinity gradient. Moreover, the contribution of salinity to the …

Variation in seagrass-associated macroinvertebrate communities along the Gulf Coast of peninsular Florida: an exploration of patterns and ecological consequences

SC Barry, AC Hyman, CA Jacoby… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… Study region and benthic invertebrate sampling stations. Colors indicate relative levels of
long-… variation is tightly linked to spatial variation, preventing strict separation of spatial and …

Seagrass patch complexity affects macroinfaunal community structure in intertidal areas: an in situ experiment using seagrass mimics

FG Brun, JF Cobo-Díaz, V González-Ortiz, JL Varela… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
… of Zostera noltei were sampled in a spatially explicit way. … in the spatial distribution patterns
of benthic organisms inhabiting … community structure (eg, diversity) of soft-bottom intertidal …

Co-occurrence patterns and the large-scale spatial structure of benthic communities in seagrass meadows and bare sand

C Kraan, SF Thrush, CF Dormann - BMC ecology, 2020 - Springer
… the hypothesis that macrozoobenthic communities in seagrass patches (Zostera muelleri)
maintain … In addition to underlining the spatial scale of community structure, our work shows the …

Effects of the Zostera noltei meadows on benthic macrofauna in North Atlantic coastal ecosystems of Morocco: spatial and seasonal patterns

O Bououarour, R El Kamcha, S Boutoumit, P Pouzet… - Biologia, 2021 - Springer
… The influence of seagrass on benthic macroinvertebrates was … the variability observed in
the macrofauna community structure was … noltei has a strong impact on spatial variability in the …

Beyond a single patch: local and regional processes explain diversity patterns in a seagrass epifaunal metacommunity

KA Stark, PL Thompson, J Yakimishyn, L Lee… - Marine Ecology …, 2020 - int-res.com
… epifaunal invertebrate diversity in 17 Zostera marina … invertebrate taxa. Other species in our
study have been introduced to the region and thus may have influenced community structure

Habitat primarily structures seagrass epifaunal communities: a regional-scale assessment in the Chesapeake Bay

CE Murphy, RJ Orth, JS Lefcheck - Estuaries and Coasts, 2021 - Springer
… epifaunal community properties at small spatial scales (1–10 m … invertebrates of 16 sites
dominated by eelgrass (Zostera … between cover and community structure was driven by three …

Microeukaryotic Communities Associated With the Seagrass Zostera marina Are Spatially Structured

B Trevizan Segovia, R Sanders‐Smith… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… that variation in seawater and epibiotic community structure … the spatial and environmental
components, but space plays a … was higher spatial variability in the epibiotic communities. A …

Latitudinal Variation into the Macrofaunal Assemblages Associated to Zostera noltei Seagrass along the Atlantic Coast of Morocco

O Bououarour, S Boutoumit… - … Journal of Zoology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… Two-dimensional distance-based redundancy analysis (dbRDA) ordination representing
the model of spatial variation in macrofaunal community structure related to the predictor …