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The underlying processes of a soil mite metacommunity on a small scale.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Metacommunity theory provides an understanding of how ecological processes regulate local community assemblies. However, few field studies have evaluated the underlying mechanisms of a metacommunity on a small scale through revealing the relative roles ...
Chengxu Dong, Meixiang Gao, Chuanwei Guo, Lin Lin, Donghui Wu, Limin Zhang   +5 more
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Impacts of habitat connectivity on grassland arthropod metacommunity structure: A field‐based experimental test of theory

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Metacommunity theory has advanced scientific understanding of how species interactions and spatial processes influence patterns of biodiversity and community structure across landscapes. While the central tenets of metacommunity theory have been promoted
Franklin Bertellotti, Nathalie R. Sommer, Oswald J. Schmitz, Matthew A. McCary   +3 more
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On the interplay of speciation and dispersal: An evolutionary food web model in space [PDF]

, 2014
We introduce an evolutionary metacommunity of multitrophic food webs on several habitats coupled by migration. In contrast to previous studies that focus either on evolutionary or on spatial aspects, we include both and investigate the interplay between ...
Allhoff, Korinna T., Drossel, Barbara, Rogge, Tobias, Weiel, Eva Marie   +3 more
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Dispersal mode and spatial extent influence distance-decay patterns in pond metacommunities. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Assuming that dispersal modes or abilities can explain the different responses of organisms to geographic or environmental distances, the distance-decay relationship is a useful tool to evaluate the relative role of local environmental structuring versus
Irene Tornero, Dani Boix, Simonetta Bagella, Carla Pinto-Cruz, Maria Carmela Caria, Anabela Belo, Ana Lumbreras, Jordi Sala, Jordi Compte, Stéphanie Gascón   +9 more
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Integrating Disturbance, Seasonality, Multi-Year Temporal Dynamics, and Dormancy Into the Dynamics and Conservation of Metacommunities

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
The metacommunity framework has rapidly become a dominant concept used by ecologists to understand community assembly. By emphasizing extinction-colonization dynamics, dispersal, and species’ niche requirements in determining community structure ...
Marcel Holyoak, Tal Caspi, Lauren W. Redosh   +2 more
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Eco-evolutionary dynamics in fragmented landscapes [PDF]

, 2017
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A patch-dynamic metacommunity perspective on the persistence of mutualistic and antagonistic bipartite networks.

Ecology, 2022
The structure of interactions between species within a community plays a key role in maintaining biodiversity. Previous studies have found that the effects of these structures might substantially differ depending on interaction type, for example, a ...
Jinbao Liao, Daniel J. Bearup, G. Strona
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Biotic interactions hold the key to understanding metacommunity organisation

Ecography, 2020
these biologically-driven signals have been equally underappreciated in other aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Although more research is still required to empirically capture the importance of biotic interactions across ecosystems and at different ...
Jorge García–Girón, J. Heino, F. García‐Criado, C. Fernández‐Aláez, J. Alahuhta   +4 more
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Ordination obscures the influence of environment on plankton metacommunity structure

Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2016
The composition of plankton communities in individual habitats is often influenced by environmental conditions like pH or hydroperiod. At larger scales, environmental gradients can influence community structure across interconnected local communities ...
Tad A. Dallas, Andrew M. Kramer, Marcus Zokan, John M. Drake   +3 more
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Neutral Theory and Relative Species Abundance in Ecology [PDF]

, 2003
The theory of island biogeography[1] asserts that an island or a local community approaches an equilibrium species richness as a result of the interplay between the immigration of species from the much larger metacommunity source area and local ...
Banavar, Jayanth R., Hubbell, Stephen P., Maritan, Amos, Volkov, Igor   +3 more
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