TY - T1 - Community size can affect the signals of ecological drift and niche selection on biodiversity SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/326684 T3 - A1 - Siqueira, Tadeu; Saito, Victor S.; Bini, Luis M.; Melo, Adriano S.; Petsch, Danielle K.; Landeiro, Victor L.; Tolonen, Kimmo T.; JyrkÀnkallio-Mikkola, Jenny; Soininen, Janne; Heino, Jani A2 - PB - Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - Ecological drift can override the effects of deterministic niche selection on small populations and drive the assembly of some ecological communities. We tested this hypothesis with a unique data set sampled identically in 200 streams in two regions (tropical Brazil and boreal Finland) that differ in macroinvertebrate community size by fivefold. Null models allowed us to estimate the magnitude to which beta-diversity deviates from the expectation under a random assembly process while taking diff... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology; aquatic insects; beta diversity deviation; community assembly; demographic stochasticity; dispersal; metacommunities; null models; TROPICAL STREAM; METACOMMUNITIES; PATTERNS; COLONIZATION; RESTORATION; DISTURBANCE; DISPERSAL; beta-diversity deviation; CONNECTIVITY; BETA-DIVERSITY; SIMILARITY N1 - PP - ER -