Data from: Species-environment sorting explains latitudinal patterns in spatiotemporal β-diversity for freshwater macroinvertebrates

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dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Helsinki-Soininen, Janne
dc.contributor.authorSoininen, Janne
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-29T14:03:07Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-31
dc.date.issued2024-05-31
dc.descriptionUnderstanding how and why β-diversity varies along latitude is a long-standing challenge in community ecology and rarely addressed in both space and time. We aimed to explore the spatiotemporal variations in macroinvertebrate β-diversity and their underlying drivers in eight biogeographic regions covering a substantial latitudinal gradient of more than 40 degrees. By combining β-diversity partitioning and distance decay of community similarity analyses, we found that subtropical β-diversity varies more in space relative to in time compared with temperate β-diversity, as we predicted. This is probably because subtropical β-diversity is shaped by species-environment sorting (SS), caused by habitat heterogeneity and species specialization, more strongly in space relative to in time than temperate β-diversity. Our study highlights the importance of SS in shaping latitudinal gradients of β-diversity in space and time.
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hdr7sqvpk
dc.identifier.urihttps://datakatalogi.helsinki.fi/handle/123456789/5547
dc.rights.licensecc-zero
dc.subjectβ-diversity
dc.subjectspace
dc.subjecttime
dc.subjecthabitat heterogeneity
dc.subjectniche specialization
dc.titleData from: Species-environment sorting explains latitudinal patterns in spatiotemporal β-diversity for freshwater macroinvertebrates
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