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Effects of the Temporal Scale of Observation on the Analysis of Aquatic Invertebrate Metacommunities

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
The development of metacommunity theory has boosted the implementation of numerous empirical tests with field data, mostly focused on the role of spatial and environmental gradients on metacommunity organization.
Andreu Castillo-Escrivà, Francesc Mesquita-Joanes, Juan Rueda   +2 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, Alonso, Alonso, Alonso, Barraclough, Blythe, Condit, Connolly, Coyne, Dornelas, Etienne, Etienne, Etienne, Etienne, Etienne, Fisher, Friedman, Gavrilets, Gregory, Gregory, Haegeman, Holt, Hubbell, Hubbell, Hubbell, Hubbell, Hubbell, Hubbell, Jabot, Kembel, Kurka, Leigh, McGill, McGill, McGill, Muneepeerakul, Nee, Nee, O'Dwyer, Phillimore, Preston, Ricklefs, Ricklefs, Rosindell, Rosindell, Rosindell, Scheffer, Schluter, Schluter, Sizling, Volkov, Volkov, Williamson, Zhou   +53 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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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., LeBlanc, Nathalie M., Mallory, Mark L., Mittelhauser, Glen, Mockford, Stephen, Paquet, Julie, Pálsson, Snæbjörn, Robertson, Gregory J., Stewart, Donald T., Summers, Ron W., Tudor, Lindsay   +10 more
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Inferring species roles in metacommunity structure from species co-occurrence networks. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2014
Borthagaray AI, Arim M, Marquet PA.
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Anthropogenic Pressure and Climate Change Could Severely Hamper the Avian Metacommunity of the Sicilian Wetlands

Diversity, 2022
Our study shows that the current levels of anthropogenic exploitation of the Sicilian wetlands (Italy), combined with the likely exacerbation of climate-driven variables, are unsustainable and could soon exclude many bird species from this metacommunity.
Alessandro Ferrarini, Claudio Celada, Marco Gustin   +2 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, Beisner, Bohonak, Chase, Cherif, Cottenie, Cottenie, Daufresne, Declerck, Duffy, Finlay, Finlay, Flössner, Giroldo, Gonzalez, Hambright, Hillebrand, Howeth, Howeth, Jenkins, Jürgens, Jürgens, Lampert, Langenheder, Legendre, Leibold, Lepš, Loreau, Loreau, Matthiessen, Matveev, Mayeli, McCauley, Michels, Mouquet, Naeslund, Ozinga, Pandit, Peres-Neto, Pärtel, R Development Core Team, Sarnelle, Scheffer, Sherr, Shurin, Staddon, Van der Gucht, Vanormelingen, Zollner   +48 more
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Local factors determine plant community structure on closely neighbored islands. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Despite the recent popularity of the metacommunity concept, ecologists have not evaluated the applicability of different metacommunity frameworks to insular organisms.
Jianbo Lu, Lin Jiang, Lin Yu, Que Sun
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Experimental salt marsh islands: a model system for novel metacommunity experiments [PDF]

, 2017
Shallow tidal coasts are characterised by shifting tidal flats and emerging or eroding islands above the high tide line. Salt marsh vegetation colonising new habitats distant from existing marshes are an ideal model to investigate metacommunity theory ...
Balke, Thorsten, Haynert, Kristin, Hillebrand, Helmut, Hodapp, Dorothee, Kleyer, Michael, Lõhmus, Kertu, Meier, Daniela, Minden, Vanessa, Zielinski, Oliver   +8 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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