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September 19, 2025Freshwater Biology

Testing Environmental Filters Across Basins: Community Assembly of Freshwater Fishes in a Subtropical Montane Riverscape

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SPSoumyadip PanjaRMRubina MondalSHSumit Homechaudhuri

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Joint species distribution models reveal that environmental filtering affects fish co-occurrence patterns, suggesting ecological dynamics vary by basin.

Key Points

  • Environmental filtering structures fish communities along subtropical elevational gradients, showing significant effects from abiotic factors.
  • Fish occurrence was influenced more by environmental filtering than by dispersal distance, highlighting the importance of local conditions.
  • The study utilized joint species distribution models to analyze fish data from multiple years across two river basins in the Eastern Himalayas.
  • Variation in species niches and co-occurrences suggests that ecological processes may differ significantly between adjacent basins.

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Panja et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d464ff31b076d99fa64bf9https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70100
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