An approach to determination of functional species pool for community research

Zhong, Xiaoxiao; Xu, Guangjian; Wang, Yangfan; Xu, Henglong

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.06.009

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“…The step-best-matching analysis was used to exhaustively select the best matching subsets that were significantly correlated with the matrix of the full species abundance dataset from the same dataset by discarding the former selections using the submodule BVSTEP in the PRIMER v6.1.16 package (Clarke and Gorley 2006). The initial selection was define as best 1, second selection after discarding the first selection as best 2, third selection after discarding the first and second selection as best 3,…, and last selection with significant correlation with the matrix of full species set after peeling out selections 1-n from full species set as best n (Zhong et al 2014). Using the selections identified at a 0.95 correlation level with the full species dataset, a smallest subset of species was determined as an optimal species pool with sufficient information of the full species set (Clarke and Gorley 2006).…”

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An approach to determination of optimal species pool of periphytic microfauna in colonization surveys for marine bioassessment

Zhong

Wang

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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To determine an optimal species pool for periphytic microfauna colonization surveys, a multivariate approach was used to identify the influential species from a raw dataset of periphytic microfauna. Samples were collected at two depths of 1 and 3 m in coastal waters of the Yellow Sea using a glass slide method. From the full 77-species dataset, a 23-species subset with sufficient information of the whole community was identified. The small subset maintained sufficient information of colonization pattern of entire raw communities (correlation coefficient >0.95). The colonization curves based the small subset well fitted the MacArthur-Wilson and logistic model equations in both species composition and individual abundance, respectively. Compared to the functional parameters based on the full dataset, the colonization rates (G) were significantly high and the time reaching 90% equilibrium species number (T 90) significantly low (P < 0.05), while the growth rates (r) and the time reaching 50 % maximum abundance (T 50) showed no significant changes (P > 0.05) at both depths, respectively. The species richness, diversity, and evenness represented significantly closed linear relationships between the subset and the full dataset. The results suggest that the small subset might be used as a robust optimal species pool for colonization-based bioassessment surveys and allows developing a time-efficient protocol for marine monitoring programs using of periphytic microfauna.

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An approach to determination of optimal species pool of periphytic microfauna in colonization surveys for marine bioassessment

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Wang

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“…Otherwise, microbial eukaryotes play an important function in maintaining and improving water quality due to their high tolerance to the extreme environmental conditions and inhabit biotopes compared to metazoa (Patterson et al, 1989;Coppellotti and Matarazzo, 2000;Xu et al, 2008). Furthermore, with their short generation times, sensitivity to environmental changes, they have widely been used as useful bioindicators of water quality in aquatic biotopes (Khatoon et al, 2007;Dorigo et al, 2009Dorigo et al, , 2010Morin et al, 2010;Xu et al, 2012Xu et al, , 2014aXu et al, , 2014bZhong et al, 2014).…”

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Can dispersions be used for discriminating water quality status in coastal ecosystems? A case study on biofilm-dwelling microbial eukaryotes

Zhang

2015

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“…The other approach is to identify a taxonomic/ecological group as a surrogate of the whole species dataset (Olsgard and Somerfield 2000;Bertasi et al 2009;Carneiro et al 2010;Xu et al 2011a;Jiang et al 2014). Although the effectiveness of taxonomic/ ecological surrogates has been reported on metazoan, phytoplanktonic, and ciliated protozoan assemblages, such studies have yet to be carried out on assessing water quality status based on the BDC communities in coastal waters (Bertasi et al 2009;Carneiro et al 2010;Xu et al 2011a;Zhong et al 2014).…”

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Insights into assessing environmental quality status using potential surrogates of biofilm-dwelling ciliate fauna in coastal waters

Zhang

Liu

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To determine potential surrogates of biofilm-dwelling ciliate fauna for assessing water quality, a dataset of coastal waters of the Yellow Sea was studied. Samples were collected monthly at a depth of 1 m from four sampling stations during a 1-year cycle (August 2011-July 2012), northern China. The ciliate communities at low taxonomic resolutions up to family level were significantly correlated with the full ciliate fauna at species-level resolution and represented a significant spatial variation in relation to the environmental changes. The presence/absence resolutions up to genus level maintained sufficient information of the ciliate species-abundance matrix. The vagile and sessile ciliate assemblages were significantly correlated with the full ciliate communities but only the latter maintained sufficient information with a significant spatial variation in response to the environmental stress. Correlation analyses showed that the taxon richness indices of potential surrogates at genus- and family-level resolutions can explain >95 % of the variance in that of the full species pool. Thus, it is suggested that the taxonomic resolutions up to family level may be a robust time-efficient surrogate of whole periphytic ciliate communities for assessing water quality status and would allow improving sampling strategies of large spatial scale monitoring programs, using biofilm-dwelling ciliates, in coastal waters.

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An approach to determination of functional species pool for community research

Cited by 41 publications

References 16 publications

An approach to determination of optimal species pool of periphytic microfauna in colonization surveys for marine bioassessment

An approach to determination of optimal species pool of periphytic microfauna in colonization surveys for marine bioassessment

Can dispersions be used for discriminating water quality status in coastal ecosystems? A case study on biofilm-dwelling microbial eukaryotes

Insights into assessing environmental quality status using potential surrogates of biofilm-dwelling ciliate fauna in coastal waters

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