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Seasonal variation in the metacommunity structure of benthic macroinvertebrates in a large river-connected floodplain lake

Ecological Indicators, 2022
To improve our understanding on the temporal aspects of metacommunity structure, we focused on benthic macroinvertebrates collected seasonally (i.e., wet, drying, dry and rewetting seasons) in Dongting Lake, a large subtropical floodplain lake in China ...
Zhengfei Li, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Xingliang Meng, Zhenyuan Liu, Junqian Zhang, Xiao Chen, Zhicai Xie, Jani Heino   +7 more
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Elements of metacommunity structure of Paraguayan bats: multiple gradients require analysis of multiple ordination axes [PDF]

Oecologia, 2009
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) No abstract provided.
Steven J, Presley, Christopher L, Higgins, Celia, López-González, Richard D, Stevens   +3 more
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Elements of metacommunity structure and community‐environment relationships in stream organisms

Freshwater Biology, 2015
SummaryMost metacommunity studies aim to explain variation in community structure using environmental and spatial variables. An alternative is to examine patterns emerging at the level of an entire metacommunity, whereby six models of metacommunity structure (i.e.
Virtanen Risto, Soininen Janne, Virtanen Laura, Virtanen Risto, Heino Jani, Tolkkinen Mikko, Nokela Tiina   +6 more
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Freshwater Releases Into Estuarine Wetlands Change the Determinants of Benthic Invertebrate Metacommunity Structure

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
In recent years, the relative importance of the processes driving metacommunity composition has aroused extensive attention and become a powerful approach to identify community patterns and their regulatory mechanisms.
Dandan Liu, Dandan Liu, Hongxian Yu, Kangle Lu, Qiang Guan, Haitao Wu   +5 more
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Hydrological changes regulate fish metacommunity structures and β-diversity patterns in the floodplain lake, China

Ecological Indicators, 2023
The metacommunity structures are continuously dynamic, and understanding the temporal species distribution patterns and biodiversity variations will elucidate the metacommunity theory. To examine whether the idealized metacommunity structuring, diversity
Yang Liu, Li Lin, Haixin Zhang, Guifang Zhang, Zijun Wu, Yanping Zhang, Bin Kang   +6 more
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Metacommunity Structures of Macroinvertebrates and Diatoms in High Mountain Streams, Yunnan, China

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
The metacommunity concept has received increasing interest in the past two decades. However, there has been limited research examining metacommunity structure of communities in high mountain streams.
Angelika L. Kurthen, Angelika L. Kurthen, Angelika L. Kurthen, Fengzhi He, Fengzhi He, Fengzhi He, Xiaoyu Dong, Alain Maasri, Alain Maasri, Naicheng Wu, Qinghua Cai, Sonja C. Jähnig, Sonja C. Jähnig   +12 more
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Water quality drives the regional patterns of an algal metacommunity in interconnected lakes

Scientific Reports, 2021
The metacommunity approach provides insights into how the biological communities are assembled along the environmental variations. The current study presents the importance of water quality on the metacommunity structure of algal communities in six river-
Min Sung Kim, Seok Hyun Ahn, In Jae Jeong, Tae Kwon Lee   +3 more
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Assessing the Zooplankton Metacommunity (Branchiopoda and Copepoda) from Mediterranean Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes

Diversity, 2023
Mediterranean wetlands are suitable ecosystems for studying metacommunity theory, since they are isolated ecosystems within a land matrix with well-established limits, often with watersheds destined for agricultural uses.
Juan Diego Gilbert, Francisco J. Márquez, Francisco Guerrero   +2 more
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Varying Patterns on Varying Scales: A Metacommunity Analysis of Nematodes in European Lakes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Ecological community patterns are often extremely complex and the factors with the greatest influence on community structure have yet to be identified.
Birgit Dümmer, Kai Ristau, Walter Traunspurger   +2 more
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Processes structuring macrophyte metacommunities in Mediterranean ponds: combining novel methods to disentangle the role of dispersal limitation, species sorting and spatial scales [PDF]

, 2019
Aim: Metacommunity ecology is a vibrant area of research that has received increased attention in recent years, since it provides a framework to assess the underlying dispersal- and niche-based processes that create non-random and ecologically meaningful
American Public Health Association, Castroviejo S, Cirujano S., Fernández‐Aláez C., García‐Girón J., Grimaldo J. T., Holyoak M., Junta de Castilla y León, R Core Team, Scheffer M.   +9 more
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