Landscape Composition Affects Elements of Metacommunity Structure for Culicidae Across South-Eastern Illinois [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 The interplay among invasive alien vectors and the species assemblage of native potential vectors in areas of range expansion may affect the dynamics of pathogen transmission.
Valeria Trivellone +4 more
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Environmental Controls on River Assemblages at the Regional Scale: An Application of the Elements of Metacommunity Structure Framework. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Understanding factors that structure regional biodiversity is important for linking ecological and biogeographic processes. Our objective was to explore regional patterns in riverine benthic invertebrate assemblages in relation to their broad positioning
Jonathan D Tonkin +3 more
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On the reliability of the Elements of Metacommunity Structure framework for separating idealized metacommunity patterns [PDF]
Ecological Indicators, 2018 The Elements of Metacommunity Structure (EMS) framework originally suggested by Leibold and Mikkelson (2002) in Oikos is a popular approach to identify idealized metacommunity patterns (i.e. checkerboard, nested, evenly spaced, Clementsian, Gleasonian), and hereby to infer the existence of structuring processes in metacommunities.
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Elements of fish metacommunity structure in Neotropical freshwater streams [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The identification of the mechanisms underlying patterns of species co‐occurrence is a way to identify which process(es) (niche, neutral, or both) structure metacommunities.
Thiago Bernardi Vieira +6 more
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Elements of metacommunity structure in Amazonian Zygoptera among streams under different spatial scales and environmental conditions. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2017 AbstractAn important aspect of conservation is to understand the founding elements and characteristics of metacommunities in natural environments, and the consequences of anthropogenic disturbance on these patterns. In natural Amazonian environments, the interfluves of the major rivers play an important role in the formation of areas of endemism ...
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Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation throughout the Ediacaran period. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2022 The first animals appear during the late Ediacaran (572 to 541 Ma); an initial diversity increase was followed reduction in diversity, often interpreted as catastrophic mass extinction.
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Helminths of sigmodontine rodents in an agroforestry mosaic in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Patterns and processes of the metacommunity structure [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2022 Phylogenetically or taxonomically related hosts may harbour similar parasite communities due to phylogenetic conservatism. In addition, host attributes may favour their exposure to parasites.
Natália Alves Costa +5 more
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The Community Simulator: A Python package for microbial ecology.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Natural microbial communities contain hundreds to thousands of interacting species. For this reason, computational simulations are playing an increasingly important role in microbial ecology.
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Seasonal Dynamics of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community Assembly in a Subtropical Monsoon‐Driven Mountain Stream [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionSeasonal variation in community assembly influences biodiversity patterns, yet its dynamics under monsoon‐driven hydrology remain underexplored in subtropical mountain streams.
Yihao Ge +7 more
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Elements of lake macrophyte metacommunity structure: Global variation and community‐environment relationships [PDF]
Limnology and Oceanography, 2020 AbstractDocumenting the patterns of biological diversity on Earth has always been a central challenge in macroecology and biogeography. However, we are only beginning to generate an understanding of the global patterns and determinants of macrophyte diversity.
Jorge García‐Girón +17 more
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