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Scripts of data selection and analysis: role of community size in driving spatial variation in riverine fish metacommunities around the world

Here we describe how we obtained and analyzed data for the manuscript: High compositional dissimilarity among small communities is decoupled from environmental variation, accepted for publication in Oikos. (10.1111/oik.09802). A preprint is also available: https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/vngse We investigated the role of community size in mediate the strength of ecological drift and environmental selection in driving community spatial variation in metacommunities.

opencc-by-4.0Apr 2022View details →

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High functional diversity in deep-sea fish communities and increasing intra-specific trait variation with increasing latitude

Variation in both inter- and intra-specific traits affect community dynamics, yet we know little regarding the relative importance of external environmental filters vs internal biotic interactions that shape the functional space of communities along broad-scale environmental gradients, such as latitude, elevation or depth. We examined changes in several key aspects of functional alpha-diversity for marine fishes along depth and latitude gradients by quantifying intra- and inter-specific richness, dispersion and regularity in functional trait space. We derived eight functional traits related to food acquisition and locomotion, and calculated seven complementary indices of functional diversity for 144 species of marine ray-finned fishes along large-scale depth (50 m – 1200 m) and latitudinal gradients (29° – 51° S) in New Zealand waters. Traits were derived from morphological measurements taken directly from footage obtained using Baited Remote Underwater Stereo-Video systems and museum specimens. We partitioned functional variation into intra- and inter-specific components for the first time using a PERMANOVA approach. We also implemented two tree-based diversity metrics in a functional distance-based context for the first time: namely, the variance in pairwise functional distance, and the variance in nearest-neighbour distance. Functional alpha diversity increased with increasing depth, and decreased with increasing latitude. More specifically, the dispersion and mean nearest-neighbour distances among species in trait space, and intra-specific trait variability all increased with depth, whereas functional hypervolume (richness) was stable across depth. In contrast, functional hypervolume, dispersion and regularity indices all decreased with increasing latitude; however, intra-specific trait variation increased with latitude, suggesting that intra-specific trait variability becomes increasingly important at higher latitudes. These results suggest that competition within and among species are key processes shaping functional multi-dimensional space for fishes in the deep sea. Increasing morphological dissimilarity with increasing depth may facilitate niche partitioning to promote coexistence, whereas abiotic filtering may be the dominant process structuring communities with increasing latitude.

opencc-zeroMar 2023View details →

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Genotype and genetic diversity data for: Contrasts in riverscape patterns of intraspecific genetic variation in a diverse Neotropical fish community of high conservation value

Spatial patterns in genetic variation compared across species provide information about the predictability of genetic diversity of natural populations and areas requiring conservation measures. Due to their remarkable fish diversity, rivers in Neotropical regions are ideal systems to confront theory with observations and would benefit greatly from such approaches given their increasing vulnerability to anthropogenic pressures. We used SNP data from 18 fish species with contrasting life-history traits, co-sampled across 12 sites in the Maroni – a major river system from the Guiana Shield – to compare patterns of intraspecific genetic variation and identify their underlying drivers. Analyses of covariance revealed a decrease in genetic diversity as distance from the river outlet increased for 5 of the 18 species, illustrating a pattern commonly observed in riverscapes for species with low-to-medium dispersal abilities. However, mean within-site genetic diversity was lowest in the two easternmost tributaries of the Upper Maroni and around an urbanized location downstream, indicating the need to address the potential influence of local pressures in these areas, such as goldmining or fishing. Finally, the relative influence of isolation by stream distance, isolation by discontinuous river flow and isolation by spatial heterogeneity in effective size on pairwise genetic differentiation varied across species. Species with similar dispersal and reproductive guilds did not necessarily display shared patterns of population structure. Increasing the knowledge of specific life history traits and ecological requirements of fish species in these remote areas should help further understand factors that influence their current patterns of genetic variation.

opencc-zeroApr 2023View details →

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Data from: Using environmental DNA metabarcoding to monitor fish communities in small rivers and large brooks: Insights on the spatial scale of information

Monitoring fish communities is central to the evaluation of ecological health of rivers. Not only presence/absence of species is important to assess, but also the species composition of local fish assemblages is a crucial parameter. Lotic fish communities are traditionally monitored via electrofishing, characterized by a known limited efficiency and high survey costs. The use of environmental DNA-based analyses could serve as a non-destructive alternative, but this approach requires further insights in practical sampling schemes incorporating transport and dilution of the eDNA fragments; as well as optimization of molecular detection in terms of predictive power and quality assurance. By introducing fifteen species known to occur in Belgian waters via a controlled cage experiment, we aim to extend the knowledge on streamreach of eDNA in small rivers and large brooks, as laid out in the European Water Framework Directive's water typology. Introducing fish communities in two transects of a species poor river characterized by contrasting river discharge rates, we found strong and significant correlations between the eDNA relative abundances and the relative biomass per species in the cage community. Despite a decreasing correlation over distance, the underlying community composition remained stable over a distance of 300 m up to 1 km downstream of the cages, depending on the river discharge rate. Such decrease in similarity between relative source biomass and the corresponding eDNA-based community profile with increasing distance downstream from the source, can partly be attributed to variation in species-specific eDNA persistence. Our findings offer novel insights on eDNA behaviour and characterization of riverine fish communities. We conclude that water sampled from a relatively small river offers an adequate snapshot of the total fish community composition occurring within an upstream perimeter ranging between 300 and 1000 meters. The potential application for other river systems is discussed in this study.

opencc-zeroApr 2023View details →

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Datasets and R source code of manuscript "From behaviour to complex communities: Resilience to anthropogenic noise in a fish-induced trophic cascade" by Emilie Rojas et al.

Datasets and R source code of manuscript "From behaviour to complex communities: Resilience to anthropogenic noise in a fish-induced trophic cascade"  by Emilie Rojas et al.

opencc-by-4.0Jun 2022View details →

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Fluvial geomorphic evolution and stream fish community trajectories in the Bayou Pierre, Mississippi

Changing environments place stresses on ecosystems, and are contributing to widespread losses of biodiversity and ecosystem function. Comparisons of historical and contemporary data offer considerable utility in understanding how ecosystems respond to, adapt to, or recover from changing environments. Stream fishes offer a particularly interesting study system for this topic, as streams are naturally dynamic environments and human needs have placed increasing pressure on aquatic systems. The effects of fine sediments on stream fishes and aquatic ecosystems more broadly have been well studied. Yet studies from fluvial geomorphology have resulted in models of watershed morphological evolution which encompass far broader processes and changes to aquatic systems. Our dataset integrates a fluvial geomorphic approach to characterize stream channel and habitat evolution over a four decade period in the Bayou Pierre, Mississippi, an ecological approach to study related change in stream fish communities in the same watershed, and analyses linking the two. Fluvial geomorphic processes were characterized both from remote sensing data sources for historic and contemporary time periods, and local fish habitat data for contemporary time periods. Historical fish community data were extracted from museum records, and contemporary fish community data were collected via sampling for fishes at the same localities as historic efforts using similar methods.

opencc-zeroOct 2023View details →

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