Rapoport’s Rule, the Ecotone Concept, and Salinity Gradient Predict the Distribution of Benthic Foraminifera in a Southeastern Pacific Estuary

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2025

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Fernández, Leonardo D., Marchant, Margarita

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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

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https://repositorio.udla.cl/handle/udla/1795

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aquatic protists, beta diversity, estuarine gradient, foraminifers, microbial biogeography, mid-domain effect, Rapoport effect, source–sink dynamics, turnover, unicellular eukaryotes

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This study explores the biogeographic processes shaping the distribution of benthic foraminifera along a salinity gradient in the Contaco Estuary, southeastern Pacific, Chile. The primary aim was to e...

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