Model‐based decomposition of environmental, spatial and species‐interaction effects on the community structure of common fish species in 772 European lakes

Aim: We tested whether there is a strong effect of species interactions on assembly of local lake fish communities, in addition to environmental filters and dispersal. Location: Seven hundred and seventy- two European lakes and reservoirs. Time period: 1993– 2012. Major taxa studied: Nineteen species of freshwater fishes. Methods: We applied a latent variable approach using Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms (R package “BORAL”). We compared the contributions of six envi ronmental predictors and the spatial organization of 772 European lakes in 209 river basins on the presence/absence of the 19 most frequent fish species and on the biomass and mean mass of the six dominant species. We inspected the residual cor relation matrix for positive and negative correlations between species.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Publication date

  2021-05-10

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/GEB.13314
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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