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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.
Rebecca Eden +2 more
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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 +2 more
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General relationships between consumer dispersal, resource dispersal and metacommunity diversity
Ecology Letters, 2014 One of the central questions of metacommunity theory is how dispersal of organisms affects species diversity. Here we show that the diversity-dispersal relationship should not be studied in isolation of other abiotic and biotic flows in the metacommunity.
Bart Haegeman, Michel Loreau
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Identification of metacommunities in bioregions with historical habitat networks [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAlthough metacommunity theory provides many useful insights for conservation planning, the transfer of this knowledge to practice is hampered due to the difficulty of identifying metacommunities in bioregions.
Nivedita Varma Harisena +2 more
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Waterbird Diversity Patterns Under Varied Hydrological Regimes in Dongting Lake and Surrounding Lakes [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionGlobally, climate and human‐induced environmental changes affect the populations and distributions of most organisms. This is particularly true for migratory birds, which change habitats throughout the annual cycle.
Siqi Zhang +12 more
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An exploration of the impact of phylogenetic tree structure on NTI and βNTI estimates of community assembly [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe nearest taxon index (NTI) and beta nearest taxon index (βNTI) are popular metrics used to infer community assembly in a variety of ecosystems. However, the dependence these metrics have on the underlying phylogenetic tree is often overlooked and can ...
Madeleine J.S. Gundersen, Olav Vadstein
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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 +6 more
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Metacommunity versus biogeography: a case study of two groups of neotropical vegetation-dwelling arthropods. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Biogeography and metacommunity ecology provide two different perspectives on species diversity. Both are spatial in nature but their spatial scales do not necessarily match.
Thiago Gonçalves-Souza +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Metacommunity theory provides a framework for how community patterns arise from processes across scales, which is relevant for understanding patterns in host-associated microbial assemblages.
Matthew Grisnik +2 more
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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 +5 more
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