Climate-associated variation in the drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate species-area relationships across shallow freshwater lakes

• Published in: The Journal of animal ecology Vol. 93; no. 1; pp. 57 - 70
• Main Authors: He, Hu, Li, Yan, Peng, Kai, Zhang, You, Rutter, Robert P, Jyväsjärvi, Jussi, Hämäläinen, Heikki, Kelly, David, Chase, Jonathan M, Ntislidou, Chrysoula, Loskutova, Olga, Alcocer, Javier, Jovem-Azevêdo, Daniele, Molozzi, Joseline, Wang, Jianjun, Zhang, Min, Li, Kuanyi, Liu, Zhengwen, Johansson, Liselotte S, Søndergaard, Martin, Cai, Yongjiu, Wang, Haijun, Jeppesen, Erik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2024
• Subjects: Animals; Aquatic ecosystems; Biodiversity; Ecology; Ecosystem; Fishes; Fresh water; Freshwater lakes; Heterogeneity; Islands; Lakes; Macroinvertebrates; Predation; Rarefaction; Sampling; Species extinction; Species richness; Variation; rarefied species richness; fish predation; passive sampling; island biogeography; biodiversity; metacommunity process

The island species-area relationship (ISAR) describes how species richness increases with increasing area of a given island or island-like habitat, such as freshwater lakes. While the ISAR is one of the most common phenomena observed in ecology, there is variation in both the form of the relationshi...