Do latitudinal gradients exist in New Zealand stream invertebrate metacommunities? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 That biodiversity declines with latitude is well known, but whether a metacommunity process is behind this gradient has received limited attention.
Jonathan D. Tonkin +4 more
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Protracted speciation revitalizes the neutral theory of biodiversity. [PDF]
, 2010 Understanding the maintenance and origin of biodiversity is a formidable task, yet many ubiquitous ecological patterns are predicted by a surprisingly simple and widely studied neutral model that ignores functional differences between species.
Allen +53 more
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Using metacommunity ecology to understand environmental metabolomes
Nature Communications, 2020 Environmental metabolomes are fundamentally coupled to microbially-linked biogeochemical processes within ecosystems. However, significant gaps exist in our understanding of their spatiotemporal organization, limiting our ability to uncover transferrable
R. Danczak +7 more
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Molecular Ecology, 2022 Understanding the environmental impact on the assembly of local communities in relation to their spatial and temporal connectivity is still a challenge in metacommunity ecology.
K. Kiemel, G. Weithoff, Ralph Tiedemann
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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 +9 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015 Metacommunity nestedness can be affected by both idiosyncratic species and species turnover, and diversity partitioning allows one to separate turnover and nested components within β-diversity. Thus, complimentary analysis of metacommunity nestedness and
Jun Xu +6 more
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Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution [PDF]
Theoretical Population Biology, 2021 AbstractWe analyze the evolution of a multidimensional quantitative trait in a class structured focal species interacting with other species in a wider metacommunity. The evolutionary dynamics in the focal species as well as the ecological dynamics of the whole metacommunity is described as a continuous time process with birth, physiological ...
Tadeas Priklopil, Laurent Lehmann
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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 +12 more
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Dispersal-mediated trophic interactions can generate apparent patterns of dispersal limitation in aquatic metacommunities [PDF]
, 2012 Dispersal is a major organising force in metacommunities, which may facilitate compositional responses of local communities to environmental change and affect ecosystem function.
Agrawal +48 more
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A complex speciation-richness relationship in a simple neutral model [PDF]
, 2012 Speciation is the "elephant in the room" of community ecology. As the ultimate source of biodiversity, its integration in ecology's theoretical corpus is necessary to understand community assembly.
Elderkin, Mark F. +10 more
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