The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology

The metacommunity concept is an important way to think about linkages between different spatial scales in ecology. Here we review current understanding about this concept. We first investigate issues related to its definition as a set of local communities that are linked by dispersal of multiple pot...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Ecology letters 2004-07, Vol.7 (7), p.601-613
Hauptverfasser:	Leibold, M. A., Holyoak, M., Mouquet, N., Amarasekare, P., Chase, J. M., Hoopes, M. F., Holt, R. D., Shurin, J. B., Law, R., Tilman, D., Loreau, M., Gonzalez, A.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Mass effects metacommunity neutral model patch dynamics species sorting
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