Neutral theory and plankton biodiversity

MJ Behrenfeld, KM Bisson - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The biodiversity of the plankton has been interpreted largely through the monocle of
competition. The spatial distancing of phytoplankton in nature is so large that cell boundary …

Community assembly: perspectives from phytoplankton's studies

C Rojo - Hydrobiologia, 2021 - Springer
Community assembly (CA) is a topic of growing interest in ecology due to global change,
among other reasons. A review of the latter 20 years in plankton CA studies suggests some …

Ecological effects of fire severity and time since fire on the diversity partitioning, composition and niche apportionment models of post-fire understory vegetation in …

H Moradizadeh, M Heydari, R Omidipour… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Monitoring and evaluating changes of the various characteristics of ecosystems after
disturbances are essential to protect the services provided by each ecosystem. In the …

Analyzing the (mis) behavior of Shannon index in eutrophication studies using field and simulated phytoplankton assemblages

S Spatharis, DL Roelke, PG Dimitrakopoulos… - Ecological …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Shannon index of diversity H′ is a commonly used metric in ecology. The tendency of
this index to show a unimodal relationship with productivity has been the subject of several …

The non-indigenous Oithona davisae in a Mediterranean transitional environment: coexistence patterns with competing species

M Pansera, E Camatti, A Schroeder, G Zagami… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The Venice lagoon (VL) has been recognized as a hot spot of introduction of non-
indigenous species (NIS), due to several anthropogenic factors and environmental stressors …

The contribution of rare species to coastal phytoplankton assemblages

L Ignatiades, O Gotsis‐Skretas - Marine Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Analysis of quantitative and qualitative composition of rare phytoplankton species
was performed using a data set collected over a large geographic area (four eutrophic gulfs …

Effects of grazing intensity and topography on species abundance distribution in a typical steppe of Inner Mongolia

WH LI, SX ZHENG, YF BAI - Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology, 2014 - plant-ecology.com
Aims Our objective is to determine: 1) how species richness and abundance vary with
grazing intensity and topography (ie, flat vs. slope) in typical steppe of Inner Mongolia …

Zipf–Mandelbrot model behavior in marine eutrophication: two way fitting on field and simulated phytoplankton assemblages

S Spatharis, G Tsirtsis - Hydrobiologia, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Zipf–Mandelbrot (ZM) model, linking the evenness and predictability of communities
(parameter gamma) to environmental diversification (parameter beta), was fitted on a …

Phytoplankton ecology in the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario: Spatial distribution, dynamics and heterogeneity

M Munawar, M Fitzpatrick… - Aquatic …, 2018 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
The Bay of Quinte, a large riverine embayment located on the northeastern shores of Lake
Ontario, has a long history of cultural eutrophication. While the Bay has been the subject of …

Assembly processes in upper subtidal macroalgae: the effect of wave exposure

S Spatharis, S Orfanidis, P Panayotidis… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2011 - Elsevier
The structure and diversity of sixteen macroalgal assemblages originating from two coastal
locations in the Northern (Kavala gulf) and Central (Maliakos gulf) Aegean in Greece were …