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Effects of the Temporal Scale of Observation on the Analysis of Aquatic Invertebrate Metacommunities
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The development of metacommunity theory has boosted the implementation of numerous empirical tests with field data, mostly focused on the role of spatial and environmental gradients on metacommunity organization.
Andreu Castillo-Escrivà +2 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Microorganisms have the potential to affect plant seed germination and seedling fitness, ultimately impacting plant health and community dynamics.
Gillian E. Bergmann, J. Leveau
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The European Zoological Journal, 2023 Most empirical metacommunity studies rely solely on morphological identification of taxa, precluding the species-level identification of several biotic groups, which can influence the characterization of metacommunities.
A. Laini +9 more
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Biodiversity conservation through the lens of metacommunity ecology
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2020 Metacommunity ecology combines local (e.g., environmental filtering and biotic interactions) and regional (e.g., dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species abundance, occurrence, composition, and diversity across scales of ...
Jonathan M. Chase +3 more
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Animals, 2022 Located on the southwest slope and plain areas of the Altai Mountains in China, this study aims to explore bird composition variation (beta diversity) in mountain landscape (metacommunity M), riparian landscape (metacommunity R), desert landscape ...
Na Li +7 more
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The application of metacommunity theory to the management of riverine ecosystems
WIREs Water, 2021 River managers strive to use the best available science to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem function. To achieve this goal requires consideration of processes at different scales.
C. Patrick +9 more
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Botanical Sciences, 2020 Background: Understanding changes in local community composition along environmental gradients is essential for studying the long-term metacommunity dynamics.
Monserrat Jiménez +6 more
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The American Naturalist, 2018 Although metacommunity ecology has improved our understanding of how dispersal affects community structure and dynamics across spatial scales, it has yet to adequately account for dormancy. Dormancy is a reversible state of reduced metabolic activity that enables temporal dispersal within the metacommunity.
Nathan I. Wisnoski +2 more
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Experimental salt marsh islands: a model system for novel metacommunity experiments [PDF]
, 2017 Shallow tidal coasts are characterised by shifting tidal flats and emerging or eroding islands above the high tide line. Salt marsh vegetation colonising new habitats distant from existing marshes are an ideal model to investigate metacommunity theory ...
Balke, Thorsten +8 more
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Assessing mutualistic metacommunity capacity by integrating spatial and interaction networks. [PDF]
Theoretical Population Biology, 2022 We develop a spatially realistic model of mutualistic metacommunities that exploits the joint structure of spatial and interaction networks. Assuming that all species have the same colonisation and extinction parameters, this model exhibits a sharp ...
Marc Ohlmann +3 more
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