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    • Understanding ecological and environmental factors influencing successional dynamics is limited.
    • Biogeographic variation in succession and community development processes across ecosystems requires further investigation.
    • Recruitment patterns of dispersive propagules can differ across spatial scales and predict successional trajectories.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate successional dynamics and the influence of recruitment on community development.
    • To understand how succession and recruitment patterns vary over a latitudinal gradient.
    • To identify the ecological processes driving community assembly and biodiversity patterns across different latitudes.

    Main Methods:

    • Measured sessile invertebrates over 12 months to track community development.
    • Assessed successive 3-month recruitment windows to analyze incoming propagules.
    • Compared succession and recruitment patterns across a 20° tropical-temperate latitudinal gradient.

    Main Results:

    • Succession and recruitment patterns showed significant latitudinal variation.
    • Tropical sites exhibited high temporal turnover and fluctuating abundances, indicating strong stochastic processes.
    • Temperate sites displayed clearer successional progression, with increasing species richness, community cover, and a shift towards competitive taxa.

    Conclusions:

    • Biogeographic variation influences community development processes and biodiversity patterns.
    • Early colonizers and species interactions play a crucial role in structuring communities, particularly in temperate regions.
    • Understanding these variations provides insights into community assembly and persistence under environmental variability.