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Spatial analysis of bivalve mollusks diversity in Mazatlan Bay, Mexico

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Mazatlan Bay is considered the northern boundary of the region with the greatest species richness of infaunal and epifaunal bivalve mollusks in the tropical eastern Pacific. The present study aimed to quantify changes in the patterns of bivalve species diversity in Mazatlan Bay at different spatial scales and to determine which scale contributes more towards the species turnover of the total diversity in the Bay. Additive and multiplicative partitions were performed in the α, β and γ diversities of four sites and two environments (intertidal and shallow subtidal) within the Bay. A total of 19,848 individuals from 27 families and 77 species of bivalves were recorded. The effectiveness of the sampling effort was evaluated using species accumulation curves, which revealed a representation of 73% in the four sites and two environments. Rarity was characterized by 20% of the singleton and unique species, and 9% of the doubletons and duplicate species. Additive partitioning showed that the species turnover among sites and between environments contributed more to bivalve total diversity. In multiplicative partitions of the sites in both environments, the greatest species richness was found at the lower scales (α1). The sites and environments showed a clear decrease in the abundant (N1) and very abundant species (N2) from α to β1–β2 scales. The spatial variability of the different habitats of the bay is important to maintain the high species richness and high percentage of different life forms found in the Bay. The β1 and β2-diversities constitute the most important component for supporting the bivalve total diversity (γ) of Mazatlan Bay.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Michel Hendrickx Reners (Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM) for technical and equipment support to carry out sampling work in Mazatlan Bay. We are grateful to José Salgado and Arizbeth Alonso for their help during field and laboratory work. The first author thanks the Consejo Nacional de Ciencias y Tecnología for financial support (PhD scholarship number 90606). The research was held at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias at Universidad of Guadalajara, and at the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM in Mazatlan, Mexico. We are very grateful to the Editor Victoriano Urgorri and two anonymous referees, have improved the quality of this manuscript with several helpful comments in earlier versions.

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    María del Carmen Esqueda-González, Eduardo Ríos-Jara, Cristian Moisés Galván-Villa & Fabián Alejandro Rodríguez-Zaragoza

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Esqueda-González, M.d.C., Ríos-Jara, E., Galván-Villa, C.M. et al. Spatial analysis of bivalve mollusks diversity in Mazatlan Bay, Mexico. Mar Biodiv 48, 1943–1959 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0703-6

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