A process‐based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 23; no. 9; pp. 1314 - 1329
• Main Authors: Thompson, Patrick L., Guzman, Laura Melissa, De Meester, Luc, Horváth, Zsófia, Ptacnik, Robert, Vanschoenwinkel, Bram, Viana, Duarte S., Chase, Jonathan M., Calcagno, Vincent
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2020; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Abiotic niche; biodiversity; Biota; Coexistence; Community ecology; competition; Computer simulation; Density; Dispersal; diversity; Dynamics; ecological communities; Ecology; Ecosystem; environmental change; environmental factors; functioning; Ideas And s; Models, Biological; Population Dynamics; simulation models; stability; Stochasticity; temporal; Abiotic niche; functioning; diversity; coexistence; environmental change; dispersal; competition; stability; temporal

The metacommunity concept has the potential to integrate local and regional dynamics within a general community ecology framework. To this end, the concept must move beyond the discrete archetypes that have largely defined it (e.g. neutral vs. species sorting) and better incorporate local scale spec...