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Environmental filtering and spatial processes equally contributed to macroinvertebrate metacommunity dynamics in the highly urbanized river networks in Shenzhen, South China

Ecological Processes, 2021
Background Disentangling the relative roles of environmental filtering and spatial processes in structuring ecological communities is a central topic in metacommunity ecology.
Zhenyuan Liu, Tingting Zhou, Yongde Cui, Zhengfei Li, Weimin Wang, Yushun Chen, Zhicai Xie   +6 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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Novel Insights to Be Gained From Applying Metacommunity Theory to Long-Term, Spatially Replicated Biodiversity Data

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Global loss of biodiversity and its associated ecosystem services is occurring at an alarming rate and is predicted to accelerate in the future.
Sydne Record, Nicole M. Voelker, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Nathan I. Wisnoski, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Christopher Swan, Luca Marazzi, Nina Lany, Nina Lany, Thomas Lamy, Aldo Compagnoni, Max C. N. Castorani, Riley Andrade, Eric R. Sokol, Eric R. Sokol   +16 more
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Helminths of sigmodontine rodents in an agroforestry mosaic in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Patterns and processes of the metacommunity structure

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, Thiago dos Santos Cardoso, Socrates Fraga da Costa-Neto, Martin R. Alvarez, Arnaldo Maldonado Junior, Rosana Gentile   +5 more
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Rethinking Biological Invasions as a Metacommunity Problem

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Perhaps more than any other ecological discipline, invasion biology has married the practices of basic science and the application of that science. The conceptual frameworks of population regulation, metapopulations, supply-side ecology, and community ...
Bryan L. Brown, Jacob N. Barney
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Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series

Nature Communications, 2023
While human activities are known to elicit rapid turnover in species composition through time, the properties of the species that increase or decrease their spatial occupancy underlying this turnover are less clear.
Wubing Xu, S. Blowes, V. Brambilla, Cher F. Y. Chow, Ada Fontrodona-Eslava, Inês S. Martins, D. McGlinn, Faye Moyes, A. Sagouis, Hideyasu Shimadzu, Roel van Klink, A. Magurran, N. Gotelli, Brian McGill, M. Dornelas, Jonathan M. Chase   +15 more
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Connecting local and regional scales with stochastic metacommunity models: Competition, ecological drift, and dispersal

Ecological Monographs, 2023
Despite the well‐known scale‐dependency of ecological interactions, relatively little attention has been paid to understanding the dynamic interplay between various spatial scales.
Brian A. Lerch, Akshata N Rudrapatna, Nasser Rabi, J. Wickman, Thomas Koffel, C. Klausmeier   +5 more
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Heterogeneity in the isolation of patches may be essential for the action of metacommunity mechanisms

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The spatial isolation gradient of communities and the gradient in the species dispersal ability are recognized as determinants of biodiversity in metacommunities. In spite of this, mean field models, spatially explicit models, and experiments were mainly
A. Borthagaray, David Cunillera‐Montcusí, Jordi Bou, Irene Tornero, D. Boix, María Antón-Pardo, Esteban Ortiz, T. Mehner, X. Quintana, S. Gascón, M. Arim   +10 more
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A process‐based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology

Ecology Letters, 2020
The metacommunity concept has the potential to integrate local and regional dynamics within a general community ecology framework. To this end, the concept must move beyond the discrete archetypes that have largely defined it (e.g. neutral vs.
P. Thompson, L. Guzman, L. De Meester, Z. Horváth, R. Ptáčník, B. Vanschoenwinkel, D. Viana, Jonathan M. Chase   +7 more
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Accounting for temporal change in multiple biodiversity patterns improves the inference of metacommunity processes.

Ecology, 2022
In metacommunity ecology, a major focus has been on combining observational and analytical approaches to identify the role of critical assembly processes, such as dispersal limitation and environmental filtering, this work has largely ignored temporal ...
L. Guzman, P. Thompson, D. Viana, B. Vanschoenwinkel, Z. Horváth, R. Ptáčník, A. Jeliazkov, S. Gascón, P. Lemmens, María Antón-Pardo, S. Langenheder, L. De Meester, Jonathan M. Chase   +12 more
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