Spatial structure and ecological variation of meroplankton on the French-Belgian coast of the North Sea

Belgrano, Andrea; Legendre, P.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Frontier, S.

doi:10.3354/meps128043

Research article1995Peer reviewedOpen access

Spatial structure and ecological variation of meroplankton on the French-Belgian coast of the North Sea

Belgrano, Andrea; Legendre, P.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Frontier, S.

Abstract

The spatial pattern of specific populations or communities plays an important role in ecological theories such as species diversity, community succession and stability. A method based on canonical correspondence ordination (CCA) and constrained ordination was used to partition the variation observed in the species abundance data matrix into 4 independent components: spatial, environmental, spatial + environmental, undetermined. Mantel and partial Mantel test results were in accordance with CCA results.

Keywords

North Sea; meroplankton; community structure; canonical correspondence analysis (CCA); constrained ordination; Monte Carlo permutation test; Mantel statistics

Published in

Marine Ecology Progress Series
1995, Volume: 128, number: 1-3, pages: 43-50
Publisher: INTER-RESEARCH

UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology

Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps128043

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/43129