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T1 Compositional breakpoints of freshwater plant communities across continents
T2 Puntos de inflexión en los gradientes de composición de las comunidades de plantas acuáticas de diferentes continentes
A1 García Girón, Jorge
A1 Heino, Jani
A1 Baastrup-Spohr, Lars
AD  1982-
A1 Clayton, John S.
A1 De Winton, M. D.
A1 Feldmann, Tõnu
AD  1973-
A1 Fernández Aláez, María del Camino
A1 Ecke, Frauke
AD  1968-
A1 Grillas, Patrick
A1 Hoyer, Mark V
A1 Kolada, Agnieszka
A1 Kosten, Sarian
A1 Lukács, Balázs A.
A1 Mjelde, Marit 1958-
A1 Mormul, Roger Paulo
A1 Rhazi, Laila
A1 Rhazi, Mouhssine
AD  1966-
A1 Sass, Laura L.
A1 Xu, Jun
A1 Alahuhta, Janne
A2 Ecologia
K1 Ecología. Medio ambiente
K1 Aquatic macrophytes
K1 Biogeography
K1 Latitudinal patterns
K1 Regionalisation
K1 Biogeografía
K1 Macrófitos acuáticos
K1 Patrones latitudinales
K1 Regionalización
K1 2508.08 Limnología
K1 2505.01-1 Biogeografía Botánica
AB [EN] Unravelling patterns and mechanisms of biogeographical transitions is crucial if we are to understand compositional gradients at large spatial extents, but no studies have thus far examined breakpoints in community composition of freshwater plants across continents. Using a dataset of almost 500 observations of lake plant community composition from six continents, we examined, for the first time, if such breakpoints in geographical space exist for freshwater plants and how well a suite of ecological factors (including climatic and local environmental variables) can explain transitions in community composition from the subtropics to the poles. Our combination of multivariate regression tree (MRT) analysis and k-means partitioning suggests that the most abrupt breakpoint exists between temperate to boreal regions on the one hand and freshwater plant communities harbouring mainly subtropical or Mediterranean assemblages on the other. The spatially structured variation in current climatic conditions is the most likely candidate for controlling these latitudinal patterns, although one cannot rule out joint effects of eco-evolutionary constraints in the harsher high-latitude environments and post-glacial migration lags after Pleistocene Ice Ages. Overall, our study supports the foundations of global regionalisation for freshwater plants and anticipates further biogeographical research on freshwater plant communities once datasets have been harmonised for conducting large-scale spatial analyses
PB Asociación Ibérica de Limnología
SN 0213-8409
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/20554
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/20554
NO García-Girón, J., Heino, J., Baastrup-Spohr, L., Clayton, J., de Winton, M., Feldmann, T., Fernández-Aláez, C., Ecke, F., Grillas, P., Hoyer, M. V., Kolada, A., Kosten, S., Lukács, B. A., Mjelde, M., Mormul, R. P., Rhazi, L., Rhazi, M., Sass, L., Xu, J. & Alahuhta, J. (2023). Compositional breakpoints of freshwater plant communities across continents. Limnetica, 42(2), 291-301. https://doi.org/10.23818/LIMN.42.21
NO Sección: SIBECOL-AIL Meeting in Aveiro-2022
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 26-jun-2024