dc.creatorRojo García Morato, Carmen
dc.creatorMesquita Joanes, Francesc
dc.creatorMonrós González, Juan Salvador
dc.creatorArmengol Díaz, Javier
dc.creatorSasa Marín, Mahmood
dc.creatorBonilla Murillo, Fabián
dc.creatorRueda Pereira, Ricardo M.
dc.creatorBenavent Corai, José
dc.creatorPiculo, Rubén
dc.creatorSegura Martínez, Matilde
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-05T17:26:22Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-20T00:11:22Z
dc.date.available2019-04-05T17:26:22Z
dc.date.available2022-10-20T00:11:22Z
dc.date.created2019-04-05T17:26:22Z
dc.date.issued2016-02-22
dc.identifierhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149505
dc.identifier1932-6203
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10669/76864
dc.identifier10.1371/journal.pone.0149505
dc.identifier741-B1-517
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/4530314
dc.description.abstractThe alternating climate between wet and dry periods has important effects on the hydrology and therefore on niche-based processes of water bodies in tropical areas. Additionally, assemblages of microorganism can show spatial patterns, in the form of a distance decay relationship due to their size or life form. We aimed to test spatial and environmental effects, modulated by a seasonal flooding climatic pattern, on the distribution of microalgae in 30 wetlands of a tropical dry forest region: the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Three surveys were conducted corresponding to the beginning, the highest peak, and the end of the hydrological year during the wet season, and species abundance and composition of planktonic and benthic microalgae was determined. Variation partitioning analysis (as explained by spatial distance or environmental factors) was applied to each seasonal dataset by means of partial redundancy analysis. Our results show that microalgal assemblages were structured by spatial and environmental factors depending on the hydrological period of the year. At the onset of hydroperiod and during flooding, neutral effects dominated community dynamics, but niche-based local effects resulted in more structured algal communities at the final periods of desiccating water bodies. Results suggest that climatemediated effects on hydrology can influence the relative role of spatial and environmental factors on metacommunities of microalgae. Such variability needs to be accounted in order to describe accurately community dynamics in tropical coastal wetlands.
dc.languageen_US
dc.sourcePLoS ONE, vol. 11(2), e0149505
dc.subjectHidrología
dc.subjectPacífico tropical
dc.subjectCosta Rica
dc.subjectNicaragua
dc.subject551.48 Hidrología
dc.titleHydrology Affects Environmental and Spatial Structuring of Microalgal Metacommunities in Tropical Pacific Coast Wetlands
dc.typeartículo científico


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