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Hierarchical metacommunity structure of fungal endophytes.

New Phytologist, 2023
The ecological and evolutionary processes shaping community structure and functions of microbial symbionts are known to be scale-dependent. Nonetheless, understanding how the relative importance of these processes changes across spatial scales, and ...
Yuanfei Pan, Mu Liu, A. Sosa, Bo Li, M. Shi, Xiaoyun Pan   +5 more
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Eutrophication increases deterministic processes and heterogeneity of co-occurrence networks of bacterioplankton metacommunity assembly at a regional scale in tropical coastal reservoirs

Water Research, 2021
Ye Chen, Jia Guo, Qinglong L Wu
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Floral diversity increases butterfly diversity in a multitrophic metacommunity.

Ecology, 2022
The impact of multitrophic interactions on metacommunity structure, despite extensive theory and modelling/manipulative studies, has remained largely unexplored within naturally occurring metacommunities.
S. C. Gordon, J. Kerr
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Metacommunities

2019
Abstract Just as the dispersal of individuals may link the dynamics of populations in space, the dispersal of species among communities may link local communities into a metacommunity. Four different perspectives characterize how dispersal rates, environmental heterogeneity, and species traits interact to influence diversity in ...
Gary G. Mittelbach, Brian J. McGill
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Towards a better ecological understanding of metacommunity stability: A multiscale framework to disentangle population variability and synchrony effects

Journal of Ecology, 2022
Despite great progress in our understanding of the mechanisms governing ecosystem stability in local communities, we still lack knowledge at a larger spatial scale.
J. Segrestin, J. Lepš
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Making sense of metacommunities: dispelling the mythology of a metacommunity typology

Oecologia, 2016
Metacommunity ecology has rapidly become a dominant framework through which ecologists understand the natural world. Unfortunately, persistent misunderstandings regarding metacommunity theory and the methods for evaluating hypotheses based on the theory are common in the ecological literature. Since its beginnings, four major paradigms-species sorting,
Bryan L Brown, Eric R Sokol, James Skelton   +2 more
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Common processes drive metacommunity structure in freshwater fish

Global Ecology and Biogeography
Environmental change affects metacommunity structure both directly—via abiotic factors and dispersal that affect species occurrence—and indirectly—via complex interactions among co‐occurring species.
Taku Kadoya, Karin Nilsson, Jocelyn Kelly, T. Bartley, Torbjörn Säterberg, M. Guzzo, Ellen Esch, D. Koide, Shin‐ichiro S. Matsuzaki, A. Terui, M. Akasaka, A. S. MacDougall   +11 more
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As time goes by: 20 years of changes in the aquatic macroinvertebrate metacommunity of Mediterranean river networks

Journal of Biogeography, 2020
To analyse temporal metacommunity dynamics in river networks in relation to hydrological conditions and dispersal.
M. Cañedo‐Argüelles, C. Gutiérrez‐Cánovas, R. Acosta, Daniel Castro‐López, N. Cid, Pau Fortuño, A. Munné, Cesc Múrria, Ana Rita Pimentão, Romain Sarremejane, M. Soria, P. Tarrats, I. Verkaik, N. Prat, N. Bonada   +14 more
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EVOLVING METACOMMUNITIES: TOWARD AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON METACOMMUNITIES

Ecology, 2006
The metacommunity framework predicts that local coexistence depends on the outcome of local species interactions and regional migration. In analogous fashion, spatial structure among populations can shape species interactions through evolutionary mechanisms. Yet, most metacommunity theories assume that populations do not evolve.
Mark C, Urban, David K, Skelly
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Ecosystem multifunctionality in metacommunities

Ecology, 2016
Abstract Ecosystem multifunctionality, the simultaneous production of multiple ecosystem functions, depends on community diversity, composition, productivity, and spatial scale. In metacommunities, each of these community properties is affected by how species disperse between local patches to track environmental change.
Patrick L, Thompson, Andrew, Gonzalez
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