FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Identifying community assembling zones and connectivity pathways in the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic Ocean BT AF Giachini Tosetto, Everton Lett, Christophe Koch‐Larrouy, Ariane Costa da Silva, Alex Neumann‐Leitão, Sigrid Nogueira Junior, Miodeli Barrier, Nicolas Dossa, Alina Nathanael Tchilibou, Michel Bauchot, Perrine Morvan, Guillaume Bertrand, Arnaud AS 1:1,2,3;2:1,2;3:2,3,4;4:3;5:3;6:5;7:1,2;8:3,6,7;9:4;10:4;11:4;12:1,2,3,8; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:; C1 MARBEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Sète, France Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Sète, France Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Recife PE, Brazil Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS) Toulouse, France Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba João Pessoa PB, Brazil International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (ICMPA), Universite d'Abomey‐Calavi Cotonou, Benin Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin (IRHOB) Cotonou ,Benin Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco Recife PE, Brazil C2 IRD, FRANCE IRD, FRANCE UNIV FED PERNAMBUCO UFPE, BRAZIL LEGOS, FRANCE UNIV FED PARAIBA, BRAZIL UNIV ABOMEY CALAVI, BENIN IRHOB, BENIN UNIV FED RURAL PERNAMBUCO UFRPE, BRAZIL UM MARBEC IN WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-int-hors-europe copubli-sud IF 5.9 TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00861/97308/106296.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00861/97308/106297.tif https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00861/97308/106298.tif https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00861/97308/106299.docx LA English DT Article CR ABRACOS ABRACOS 2 BO Antea DE ;community assembly;landscape ecology;mass effect;metacommunity;northeastern Brazil;species sorting AB Dispersal is more intense in the ocean than on land because most marine taxa present planktonic life stages that are transported by currents even without specific morphological traits. Thus, species dispersal shapes the distribution of biodiversity along seascapes and drives the composition of biodiversity assemblages. To identify marine assembling zones which characterise spatial areas particularly prone to receive and retain similar animal assemblages from the regional pool of species through passive dispersal, we propose a community‐based approach grounded on Lagrangian simulations of plankton dispersal. This novel approach was applied to communities (coast, outer shelf, slope, seamounts and islands; 0–80 m depth) of the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic and used to assess connectivity pathways. For that, we classified the modelled particles in 15 categories according to biological traits (planktonic life duration and spawning habitat) of representative planktonic communities. From the hierarchical clustering of the multivariate matrix containing the amount of arriving particles from each category in each cell we defined 14 assembling zones. Results highlighted that the assembling zones were mostly shaped by the degree of exposure to currents and the presence of mesoscale features (eddies, recirculation) derived from the interaction between these currents and coastlines. The boundaries, dispersal and connectivity patterns of these zones consistently align with local and regional in situ spatial distribution and abundance patterns of organisms, and provide an appropriate basis for the formulation of ecological hypotheses in the metacommunity framework to be tested in situ, such as the balance between species sorting and mass effect assembling archetypes. This approach, when coupled with the knowledge of other processes shaping communities' structure and distribution, provides important insights for regions and animal groups for which knowledge is limited or absent, and more generally allows for a comprehensive overview of the distribution of distinct communities and connectivity pathways along marine environments. PY 2024 PD MAR SO Ecography SN 0906-7590 PU Wiley VL 2024 IS 3 UT 001107708800001 DI 10.1111/ecog.07110 ID 97308 ER EF