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| Format: | Artículo científico |
| Language: | en |
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Marine environmental research
2025
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| Online Access: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40700916/ |
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- Ecological filtering and functional trait patterns in polychaete communities of the Arabian Gulf. Jayachandran, Paravanparambil R Joydas, Thadickal V Manokaran, Seerangan Gopi, Jayanath Dixit, Sudhanshu Jima, Mantodi Manikandan, Karuppasamy P Thattathazhath, Mohamed Asharaf Panickan, Premlal Qurban, Mohammed A Qasem, Ali M Alghamdi, Hamed Lozano-Cortés, Diego Polychaeta Animals Saudi Arabia Biodiversity Ecosystem Environmental Monitoring Geologic Sediments Functional traits provide a mechanistic link between species attributes and ecosystem processes, offering insights into community responses to environmental gradients. This study examined how habitat heterogeneity structures macrobenthic polychaete functional diversity along the Saudi Arabian Gulf coast (Khafji to Ras Abu Qamis). Benthic habitats were classified into shallow, intermediate, and deep zones. Functional diversity indices-functional dispersion (FDis), functional richness (FRic), and Rao's quadratic entropy (RaoQ) were applied alongside RLQ and fourth-corner analyses to assess trait-environment relationships. Shallow and intermediate zones exhibited significantly higher functional diversity (p