Web15 dec. 2009 · Metacommunity ecology studies the interactions among species as they occur across a network of patches and provides a deeper understanding of the causes … Web18 mei 2024 · 7. Interaction between ecology and evolution. We study convergence in the patterns of variation at the level of populations (mainly large branchiopods) and invertebrate communities and try to uncover underlying processes. We especially study the importance of hatching patterns and requirements on population and community structure and …
Towards a multi-trophic extension of metacommunity ecology
Web18 dec. 2024 · Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity—with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity. Until now, the field has focused on evaluating the relative … Web28 feb. 2024 · A metacommunity is defined as a set of local communities that are linked by dispersal. For single species, the metapopulation concept addresses how dispersal … lanuar berazategui
(PDF) Empirical approaches to metacommunities: a review
Web1 jan. 2024 · We propose an extension of metacommunity ecology that addresses these shortcomings by incorporating variability among trophic levels in ‘spatial use properties’. We define ‘spatial use ... Web20 mei 2024 · Community composition and the underlying mechanisms of species diversity patterns are fundamental topics in community ecology [1,2,3].A metacommunity refers to a set of local communities in a given region that are potentially connected by species dispersal [4,5,6].The theoretical framework for metacommunities provides a way to … Web31 mrt. 2024 · According to metacommunity theory (Leibold et al., 2004), the structure of local communities results from the interplay between local factors (e.g., environmental filtering, species interactions) and regional factors (e.g., dispersal rates, landscape configuration). The relative importance of these factors is highly dependent on the … lanuary的意思