2014
Fish Functional Traits Correlated with Environmental Variables in a Temperate Biodiversity Hotspot
Abstract: The global biodiversity crisis has invigorated the search for generalized patterns in most disciplines within the natural sciences. Studies based on organismal functional traits attempt to broaden implications of results by identifying the response of functional traits, instead of taxonomic units, to environmental variables. Determining the functional trait responses enables more direct comparisons with, or predictions for, communities of different taxonomic composition. The North American freshwater fish faun…
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“…These inferred effects of forest loss on fish biodiversity are in line with the view that environmental conditions associated with land cover act like a filter during local community assembly, as observed in studies involving other organisms and ecosystems (e.g. Casatti et al, 2015;Keck et al, 2014;Ockinger et al, 2010). In our study, several species were strongly associated with forest cover, because they directly exploit resources that originate from forest vegetation.…”
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