2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/25/2021 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | EXPLORING ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURAL VARIATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA STREAM FISH USING TAXONOMIC, FUNCTIONAL, AND PHYLOGENETIC BETA DIVERSITY | Virtual Platform
EXPLORING ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURAL VARIATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA STREAM FISH USING TAXONOMIC, FUNCTIONAL, AND PHYLOGENETIC BETA DIVERSITY
Humans have an ever-growing impact on our freshwater systems. While previous research has focused on environmental filtering and species sorting in structuring stream fish communities, less research has focused on understanding how environmental filters disentangle into natural or anthropogenic origins. Including phylogenetic and trait measures of community assembly, with taxonomic measures, could further explain variation structuring fish communities. We acquired a large-scale data set including 350 sites from South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and collected natural environmental data from the sites along with detailed trait data and a phylogenetic tree with all species. We gathered anthropogenic data using StreamCAT database. We used variation partitioning to determine the percent of explained variation of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic beta diversity from natural, anthropogenic, and space on all of South Carolina and four major watersheds. We hypothesized that functional and phylogenetic beta diversity will show more explained variation than taxonomic beta diversity. We additionally hypothesize that anthropogenic variation will explain more variation than natural variation the four main watersheds compared to the whole state. This study could provide a new way to understand how human may be impacting stream fish communities.
- Stream
- Urban
- Connectivity
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Lauren Stoczynski
(), Clemson University, lstoczy@clemson.edu;
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Brandon Peoples
(), Clemson University, Peoples@g.clemson.edu;
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Luke Bower
(), Clemson University, lmbower@clemson.edu;
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