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How fish traits and functional diversity respond to environmental changes and species invasion in the largest river in Southeastern China

BACKGROUND: Freshwater fish populations are facing multiple stressors, including climate change, species invasion, and anthropogenic interference. Temporal studies of fish functional diversity and community assembly rules based on trait-environment relationships provide insights into fish community...

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Autores principales: Lin, Li, Deng, Weide, Huang, Xiaoxia, Liu, Yang, Huang, Liangliang, Kang, Bin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8312501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34386304
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11824
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author Lin, Li
Deng, Weide
Huang, Xiaoxia
Liu, Yang
Huang, Liangliang
Kang, Bin
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Deng, Weide
Huang, Xiaoxia
Liu, Yang
Huang, Liangliang
Kang, Bin
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description BACKGROUND: Freshwater fish populations are facing multiple stressors, including climate change, species invasion, and anthropogenic interference. Temporal studies of fish functional diversity and community assembly rules based on trait-environment relationships provide insights into fish community structure in riverine ecosystems. METHODS: Fish samples were collected in 2015 in the Min River, the largest freshwater riverine system in Southeastern China. Fish functional diversity was compared with the background investigation in 1979. Changes in functional richness, functional evenness, functional divergence, and functional beta diversity were analyzed. Relationships between functional diversity and environmental factors were modeled by random forest regression. Correlations between fish functional traits and environmental factors were detected by fourth-corner combined with RLQ analysis. RESULTS: Functional richness was significantly reduced in 2015 compared with 1979. Functional beta diversity in 2015 was significantly higher than that in 1979, with functional nestedness being the driving component. Reduction of functional richness and domination of functional nestedness is associated with species loss. Trait convergence was the dominant mechanism driving the temporal changes of functional diversity. Precipitation, temperature, species invasion, and human population were the most significant factors driving fish functional diversity. Higher precipitation, higher temperature, and presence of invasive species were significantly associated with higher swimming factor and higher relative eye diameter, while the opposite environmental conditions were significantly associated with higher pectoral fin length and eurytopic water flow preference. CONCLUSIONS: Environmental filtering is the dominant temporal assembly mechanism shaping fish community structure. This work contributes to the understanding of temporal freshwater fish community assembly and the associations between fish functional structure and local environmental conditions, which will be informative for future freshwater fish conservation.
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spelling pubmed-83125012021-08-11 How fish traits and functional diversity respond to environmental changes and species invasion in the largest river in Southeastern China Lin, Li Deng, Weide Huang, Xiaoxia Liu, Yang Huang, Liangliang Kang, Bin PeerJ Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science BACKGROUND: Freshwater fish populations are facing multiple stressors, including climate change, species invasion, and anthropogenic interference. Temporal studies of fish functional diversity and community assembly rules based on trait-environment relationships provide insights into fish community structure in riverine ecosystems. METHODS: Fish samples were collected in 2015 in the Min River, the largest freshwater riverine system in Southeastern China. Fish functional diversity was compared with the background investigation in 1979. Changes in functional richness, functional evenness, functional divergence, and functional beta diversity were analyzed. Relationships between functional diversity and environmental factors were modeled by random forest regression. Correlations between fish functional traits and environmental factors were detected by fourth-corner combined with RLQ analysis. RESULTS: Functional richness was significantly reduced in 2015 compared with 1979. Functional beta diversity in 2015 was significantly higher than that in 1979, with functional nestedness being the driving component. Reduction of functional richness and domination of functional nestedness is associated with species loss. Trait convergence was the dominant mechanism driving the temporal changes of functional diversity. Precipitation, temperature, species invasion, and human population were the most significant factors driving fish functional diversity. Higher precipitation, higher temperature, and presence of invasive species were significantly associated with higher swimming factor and higher relative eye diameter, while the opposite environmental conditions were significantly associated with higher pectoral fin length and eurytopic water flow preference. CONCLUSIONS: Environmental filtering is the dominant temporal assembly mechanism shaping fish community structure. This work contributes to the understanding of temporal freshwater fish community assembly and the associations between fish functional structure and local environmental conditions, which will be informative for future freshwater fish conservation. PeerJ Inc. 2021-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8312501/ /pubmed/34386304 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11824 Text en ©2021 Lin et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Lin, Li
Deng, Weide
Huang, Xiaoxia
Liu, Yang
Huang, Liangliang
Kang, Bin
How fish traits and functional diversity respond to environmental changes and species invasion in the largest river in Southeastern China
title How fish traits and functional diversity respond to environmental changes and species invasion in the largest river in Southeastern China
title_full How fish traits and functional diversity respond to environmental changes and species invasion in the largest river in Southeastern China
title_fullStr How fish traits and functional diversity respond to environmental changes and species invasion in the largest river in Southeastern China
title_full_unstemmed How fish traits and functional diversity respond to environmental changes and species invasion in the largest river in Southeastern China
title_short How fish traits and functional diversity respond to environmental changes and species invasion in the largest river in Southeastern China
title_sort how fish traits and functional diversity respond to environmental changes and species invasion in the largest river in southeastern china
topic Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8312501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34386304
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11824
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