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.
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Bacterial community assembly in Atlantic cod larvae (Gadus morhua): contributions of ecological processes and metacommunity structure. [PDF]
FEMS Microbiol Ecol, 2020 Many studies demonstrate the importance of the commensal microbiomes to animal health and development. However, the initial community assembly process is poorly understood.
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Arctic ScienceHydrological connectivity is a fundamental determinant of aquatic metacommunity structure. However, the potential response to altered patterns of connectivity in a changing climate remain poorly understood, particularly in regard to vulnerable systems ...
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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.
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The role of dispersal mode and habitat specialization for metacommunity structure of shallow beach invertebrates. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Metacommunity ecology recognizes the interplay between local and regional patterns in contributing to spatial variation in community structure. In aquatic systems, the relative importance of such patterns depends mainly on the potential connectivity of ...
Iván F Rodil +6 more
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Freshwater Bacterioplankton Metacommunity Structure Along Urbanization Gradients in Belgium [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Urbanization is transforming and fragmenting natural environments worldwide, driving changes in biological communities through alterations in local environmental conditions as well as by changing the capacity of species to reach specific habitats.
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Environmental Controls on River Assemblages at the Regional Scale: An Application of the Elements of Metacommunity Structure Framework. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Understanding factors that structure regional biodiversity is important for linking ecological and biogeographic processes. Our objective was to explore regional patterns in riverine benthic invertebrate assemblages in relation to their broad positioning
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Dispersal ability determines the role of environmental, spatial and temporal drivers of metacommunity structure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Recently, community ecologists are focusing on the relative importance of local environmental factors and proxies to dispersal limitation to explain spatial variation in community structure.
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Seasonal Dynamics of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community Assembly in a Subtropical Monsoon‐Driven Mountain Stream [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionSeasonal variation in community assembly influences biodiversity patterns, yet its dynamics under monsoon‐driven hydrology remain underexplored in subtropical mountain streams.
Yihao Ge +7 more
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Invertebrate Metacommunity Structure and Dynamics in an Andean Glacial Stream Network Facing Climate Change. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Under the ongoing climate change, understanding the mechanisms structuring the spatial distribution of aquatic species in glacial stream networks is of critical importance to predict the response of aquatic biodiversity in the face of glacier melting. In
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