Mapping the macrozoobenthic communities in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea using community distribution model

Yue ZHANG; Yong XU; Xinzheng LI

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Mapping the macrozoobenthic communities in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea using community distribution model

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- Mapping the macrozoobenthic communities in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea using community distribution model
- Mapping the macrozoobenthic communities in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea using community distribution model
- 海洋湖沼学报(英文) 2026年页码：1-11
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Marine Organism Taxonomy & Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  2.Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao Marine Science and Technology Center, Qingdao 266237, China
  3.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  4.China Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
- Author bio：
  
  xuyong@qdio.ac.cn
  lixzh@qdio.ac.cn
- Funds：
  
  the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFF0802202);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42006078;31872194);the International Science Partnership Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.‍133137KYSB20200002), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA23050304);the Science and Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China(2017FY201404);the Ocean Public Welfare Scientific Research Project, the State Oceanic Administration of the PRC(201505004-1);the Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(2015ASKJ01);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA11020303)
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-025-5223-9
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- 收稿：2025-06-19，
  
  网络首发：2026-02-04，
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Yue ZHANG, Yong XU, Xinzheng LI. Mapping the macrozoobenthic communities in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea using community distribution model[J/OL]. 海洋湖沼学报(英文), 2026,1-11.

ZHANG Yue,XU Yong,LI Xinzheng.Mapping the macrozoobenthic communities in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea using community distribution model[J].Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,
Yue ZHANG, Yong XU, Xinzheng LI. Mapping the macrozoobenthic communities in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea using community distribution model[J/OL]. 海洋湖沼学报(英文), 2026,1-11. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-025-5223-9.

ZHANG Yue,XU Yong,LI Xinzheng.Mapping the macrozoobenthic communities in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea using community distribution model[J].Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, DOI：.

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Abstract

The continental shelves of Yellow Sea and East China Sea harbor complex macrozoobenthic communities

and they are shaped by unique hydrographic features such as the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass and the Kuroshio. To address the lack of full-coverage spatial baselines for these ecologically critical assemblages

we constructed a continental shelf-scale community distribution model (CDM). By integrating community point data from benthic trawl surveys conducted between 2000 and 2015 with benthic environmental data from Bio-ORACLE

we developed CDMs based on binomial generalized linear model (GLM) and multi-algorithm ensemble species distribution models (SDMs). Spatial probability distribution maps of communities were generated at a resolution of 0.5° and subsequently integrated into a comprehensive map of the most probable macrozoobenthic community distribution across the study area. The results indicate: (1) model predictions exhibit high consistency with observed distributions (GLM: 90.4%; ensemble SDM: 91.3%); (2) depth and temperature are dominant environmental drivers

and cold-water mass communities exhibited significant negative correlations with temperature

while East China Sea communities display coast-to-offshore zonation patterns along depth gradients; (3) CDMs demonstrate robust extrapolation capabilities in data-sparse regions

such as the northern Yellow Sea and offshore areas of the East China Sea

and successfully predicted the community distributions. This study provided continuous distribution maps of macrozoobenthic community distributions in the Yellow and East China Seas

validated the applicability of CDMs in complex shelf ecosystems with a valuable tool for biodiversity conservation and marine management in this region.

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