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June 17, 2026EcosphereOpen Access

Sedimentation‐driven environmental filtering shapes community assembly of cryptic coralline algae

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SZShing H. ZhanUniversity of OxfordYHYu-Tsen HuangTunghai UniversityCLChen‐Pan LiaoTunghai University

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Implication

Randomized trial demonstrates how sedimentation affects CCA assembly in a high-sediment environment, indicating its ecological implications.

Key Points

  • The study aims to understand how sedimentation influences the community assembly of cryptic crustose coralline algae in different environments.
  • Compared ecological characteristics and physiological responses of CCA from high- and low-sediment environments.
  • Conducted sediment burial experiments on various CCA species.
  • Analyzed benthic cover and DNA barcoding data from 632 CCA specimens.
  • High sedimentation in the TAR resulted in dominant CCA species exhibiting higher tolerance to sediment burial.
  • Harveylithon sp. and Sporolithon sp. show greater physiological tolerance compared to H. catarinense and Lithophyllum sp.
  • Dispersal limitation does not explain the absence of certain CCA species in the TAR.

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Zhan et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a323b21d50b63ecad205d45https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70686
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