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Three biodiversity facets and assembly mechanism of the oligochaete community in the karst spring environment

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Springs as ecotones represent a suitable environment for testing hypotheses regarding the principles of a benthic community assembly. In this study, we aimed to uncover the processes which form the oligochaete assemblages in the karst springs environment. To uncover the assembly mechanism of the oligochaete community, we applied a multidimensional approach which included taxonomic, trait, and phylogenetic data. In total, 37 aquatic/semiaquatic oligochaete taxa were found. Null model analyses did not uncover any clear evidence of a nonrandom functional/phylogenetic structure of spring oligochaete fauna. Although, for all of the springs, the observed functional/phylogenetic diversity did not differ from that of null models, the position of the majority of observed values under the mean value of null models suggests that environmental filtering may be a more important driver in the community assembly. The environmental parameters that significantly drive the three biodiversity facets of the oligochaetes were spring temperature (functional and phylogenetic diversity), trophic status (taxonomic a phylogenetic diversity), spring connection (taxonomic diversity), and substrate, as well as oxygen conditions (functional diversity). Our findings provide, therefore, robust evidence that the ecological drivers of biodiversity differ among different scales, and future research should apply the multifacet approach to determine biodiversity conservation management.

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The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. The Oligochaeta dataset named DS-OLKS is available at BOLD systems: https://doi.org/10.5883/DS-OLKS.

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We would like to thank Tomáš Derka, Alexandra Rogánska, Katarína Gregušová, and students from the Department of Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava for the assistance with the field sampling and laboratory processing. We would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers that helped to improve the manuscript.

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This study was financially supported by the Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic—VEGA [Projects Number: 1/0255/15 and 1/0127/20].

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    Pavel Beracko, Jakub Cíbik & Patrik Macko

  2. Department of Geochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by [PB], [JC], [TL], and [PM]. The first draft of the manuscript was written by [PB] and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Beracko, P., Cíbik, J., Macko, P. et al. Three biodiversity facets and assembly mechanism of the oligochaete community in the karst spring environment. Hydrobiologia 849, 603–624 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04728-1

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