community structure
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Climate warming drives multidimensional reorganization of global zooplankton community structure and function: an updated review
Climate warming is fundamentally reshaping global zooplankton communities, impacting their structure and function through a complex interplay of environmental stressors—ocean warming, acidification, and intensified stratification, among others. This updated review synthesizes empirical evidence, highlighting how these drivers influence species distributions, body sizes, and ecosystem processes like carbon cycling and nutrient regeneration. Taxonomic and regional variability significantly affect these responses, demanding integrated approaches combining long-term observations and advanced modeling.
Unveiling deep-sea benthic biodiversity in the northern South China Sea through environmental DNA metabarcoding
A comprehensive environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding study has revealed unprecedented insights into the benthic biodiversity of the northern South China Sea’s Qiongdongnan Basin, a region critical for natural gas hydrate resources. Researchers identified 334 benthic faunal species across cold seeps, gas hydrate stable zones, and non-gas hydrate zones, demonstrating clear habitat-specific community structures largely governed by deterministic processes like variable selection.