Landscape and Marine Environmental Factors Jointly Regulate the Intertidal Species Richness and Community Structure in the Islands of South Korea
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Species Richness, Funational Diversity, and Community Structure Factors
2.3. Landscape and Marine Environmental Factors
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
4.1. Drivers of SR of the Intertidal Organisms across Overall Islands
4.2. Drivers of FD and SES.MFD of Intertidal Organisms across Overall Islands
4.3. Drivers of the Intertidal SR, FD, and SES.MFD between the Inhabited and Uninhabited Islands
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
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Functional Category | Functional Trait | Unit | Data Source |
---|---|---|---|
Structure size | Body or shell size | mm | National Institute of Biological Resources, South Korea (2011) |
Body form | Cylindrical | - | |
Crustacean | |||
Cnidaria | |||
Bullate/Saccate | |||
Bivalved/Gastropod | |||
Vermiform | |||
Radial | |||
Dietary composition | Suspended plankton | % | National Biodiversity Center, South Korea (2018) |
Seaweed (vegetable) | |||
Aquatic animal | |||
Dead organisms | |||
Foraging behavior | Masticatory eating | % | |
Filter feeding | |||
Suction feeding | |||
Perforation feeding | |||
Habitat preference | Rocky intertidal zone | % | |
Tidal flat intertidal zone | |||
Gravel, Sand intertidal zone | |||
Subtidal zone | |||
Supralittoral zone | |||
Mobility | Movable | - | |
Immovable |
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Lee, M.-K.; Lee, Y.-J.; Lee, C.-B. Landscape and Marine Environmental Factors Jointly Regulate the Intertidal Species Richness and Community Structure in the Islands of South Korea. Diversity 2023, 15, 826. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15070826
Lee M-K, Lee Y-J, Lee C-B. Landscape and Marine Environmental Factors Jointly Regulate the Intertidal Species Richness and Community Structure in the Islands of South Korea. Diversity. 2023; 15(7):826. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15070826
Chicago/Turabian StyleLee, Min-Ki, Yong-Ju Lee, and Chang-Bae Lee. 2023. "Landscape and Marine Environmental Factors Jointly Regulate the Intertidal Species Richness and Community Structure in the Islands of South Korea" Diversity 15, no. 7: 826. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15070826