Impacts of habitat connectivity on grassland arthropod metacommunity structure: A field‐based experimental test of theory [PDF]
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 +3 more
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The presence of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, a fungal pathogen of bats, correlates with changes in microbial metacommunity structure [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Metacommunity theory provides a framework for how community patterns arise from processes across scales, which is relevant for understanding patterns in host-associated microbial assemblages.
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Helminths of sigmodontine rodents in an agroforestry mosaic in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Patterns and processes of the metacommunity structure [PDF]
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 +5 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2022 To improve our understanding on the temporal aspects of metacommunity structure, we focused on benthic macroinvertebrates collected seasonally (i.e., wet, drying, dry and rewetting seasons) in Dongting Lake, a large subtropical floodplain lake in China ...
Zhengfei Li +7 more
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Taxonomic and functional components of avian metacommunity structure along an urban gradient. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Identifying biological processes that structure natural communities has long interested ecologists. Community structure may be determined by various processes, including differential responses of species to environmental characteristics, regional-level ...
Erin E Stukenholtz, Richard D Stevens
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Metacommunity Structure of Stream Insects across Three Hierarchical Spatial scales [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 A major challenge in community ecology is to understand the underlying factors driving metacommunity (i.e., a set of local communities connected through species dispersal) dynamics.
Siwen He +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 In recent years, the relative importance of the processes driving metacommunity composition has aroused extensive attention and become a powerful approach to identify community patterns and their regulatory mechanisms.
Dandan Liu +5 more
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Elements of fish metacommunity structure in Neotropical freshwater streams [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The identification of the mechanisms underlying patterns of species co‐occurrence is a way to identify which process(es) (niche, neutral, or both) structure metacommunities.
Thiago Bernardi Vieira +6 more
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Drivers of benthic metacommunity structure along tropical estuaries. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Community structure of many systems changes across space in many different ways (e.g., gradual, random or clumpiness). Accessing patterns of species spatial variation in ecosystems characterized by strong environmental gradients, such as estuaries, is ...
Alves AT, Petsch DK, Barros F.
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Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionThe emergence of metacommunity theory has provided a framework for studying the spatial structure of biological communities. To unravel the underlying driving mechanisms of macroinvertebrate metacommunity structure and diversity, this paper evaluates ...
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