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Spatiotemporal variation in drivers of parasitoid metacommunity structure in continuous forest landscapes

Ecosphere, 2018
Although landscape spatial structure is known to influence spatial patterns of biodiversity, its effect on insect communities at higher trophic levels such as parasitoids remains poorly understood.
Ronan Marrec, Olivier Pontbriand‐Paré, Simon Legault, Patrick M. A. James   +3 more
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Elements of metacommunity structure of diatoms and macroinvertebrates within stream networks differing in environmental heterogeneity

Journal of Biogeography, 2020
Idealized metacommunity structures (i.e. checkerboard, random, quasi‐structures, nested, Clementsian, Gleasonian and evenly spaced) have recently gained increasing attention, but their relationships with environmental heterogeneity and how they vary with
Siwen He, Kai Chen, J. Soininen, J. Heino, Ning Ding, Beixin Wang   +5 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation throughout the Ediacaran period.

PLoS Biology, 2022
The first animals appear during the late Ediacaran (572 to 541 Ma); an initial diversity increase was followed reduction in diversity, often interpreted as catastrophic mass extinction.
Rebecca Eden, Andrea Manica, Emily G Mitchell   +2 more
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Hydrological changes regulate fish metacommunity structures and β-diversity patterns in the floodplain lake, China

Ecological Indicators, 2023
The metacommunity structures are continuously dynamic, and understanding the temporal species distribution patterns and biodiversity variations will elucidate the metacommunity theory. To examine whether the idealized metacommunity structuring, diversity
Yang Liu, Li Lin, Haixin Zhang, Guifang Zhang, Zijun Wu, Yanping Zhang, Bin Kang   +6 more
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Disentangling the drivers of metacommunity structure across spatial scales. [PDF]

J Biogeogr, 2013
Meynard CN, Lavergne S, Boulangeat I, Garraud L, Van Es J, Mouquet N, Thuiller W.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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, Russell G. Death, Timo Muotka, Anna Astorga, David A. Lytle   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Multi-species occupancy modeling provides novel insights into amphibian metacommunity structure and wetland restoration.

Ecological Applications, 2021
A fundamental goal of community ecology is to understand species-habitat relationships and how they shape metacommunity structure. Recent advances in occupancy modeling enable habitat relationships to be assessed for both common and rare species within ...
A. Hamer, D. Schmera, M. Mahony
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Water quality drives the regional patterns of an algal metacommunity in interconnected lakes

Scientific Reports, 2021
The metacommunity approach provides insights into how the biological communities are assembled along the environmental variations. The current study presents the importance of water quality on the metacommunity structure of algal communities in six river-
Min Sung Kim, Seok Hyun Ahn, In Jae Jeong, Tae Kwon Lee   +3 more
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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, Castroviejo S, Cirujano S., Fernández‐Aláez C., García‐Girón J., Grimaldo J. T., Holyoak M., Junta de Castilla y León, R Core Team, Scheffer M.   +9 more
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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, Angelika L. Kurthen, Angelika L. Kurthen, Fengzhi He, Fengzhi He, Fengzhi He, Xiaoyu Dong, Alain Maasri, Alain Maasri, Naicheng Wu, Qinghua Cai, Sonja C. Jähnig, Sonja C. Jähnig   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source