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Context-dependent interactions and the regulation of species richness in freshwater fish

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, March 2018
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Title
Context-dependent interactions and the regulation of species richness in freshwater fish
Published in
Nature Communications, March 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-03419-1
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Andrew S. MacDougall, Eric Harvey, Jenny L. McCune, Karin A. Nilsson, Joseph Bennett, Jennifer Firn, Timothy Bartley, James B. Grace, Jocelyn Kelly, Tyler D. Tunney, Bailey McMeans, Shin-Ichiro S. Matsuzaki, Taku Kadoya, Ellen Esch, Kevin Cazelles, Nigel Lester, Kevin S. McCann

Abstract

Species richness is regulated by a complex network of scale-dependent processes. This complexity can obscure the influence of limiting species interactions, making it difficult to determine if abiotic or biotic drivers are more predominant regulators of richness. Using integrative modeling of freshwater fish richness from 721 lakes along an 11o latitudinal gradient, we find negative interactions to be a relatively minor independent predictor of species richness in lakes despite the widespread presence of predators. Instead, interaction effects, when detectable among major functional groups and 231 species pairs, were strong, often positive, but contextually dependent on environment. These results are consistent with the idea that negative interactions internally structure lake communities but do not consistently 'scale-up' to regulate richness independently of the environment. The importance of environment for interaction outcomes and its role in the regulation of species richness highlights the potential sensitivity of fish communities to the environmental changes affecting lakes globally.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 98 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 20%
Researcher 18 18%
Student > Master 15 15%
Student > Bachelor 10 10%
Professor 4 4%
Other 13 13%
Unknown 18 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33 34%
Environmental Science 29 30%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 2%
Mathematics 1 1%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 1%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 27 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 October 2019.
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