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

By M. Leibold, M. Holyoak, N. Mouquet, P. Amarasekare, Jonathan M. Chase, M. Hoopes, Robert D. Holt, Jonathan B. Shurin, David Tilman, Michel Loreau and 1 more. 2004

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Beta diversity of diatom species and ecological guilds: Response to environmental and spatial mechanisms along the stream watercourse (2018, background): “Indeed, mass effects, responsible for the presence of species in unsuitable habitats, could mask the effect of the local environment (Heino, Melo, Siqueira, et al., 2015; Leibold et al., 2004).”
Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns (2020, background): “The lingering question is why the filtering framework does not provide general results despite being built on strong ecological theories (Chesson, 2000; Leibold et al., 2004).”
Effects of nutrient enrichment on Prymnesium parvum population dynamics and toxicity: results from field experiments, Lake Possum Kingdom, USA (2007, background): “Immigration certainly influences community structure and can alter plankton dynamics (Leibold & Norberg 2004, Leibold et al. 2004).”
The state of plant population modelling in light of environmental change (2008, background): “…(Chun et al., 2007), competition and other biotic interactions, buffering effects produced by source–sink interactions or metapopulation dynamics, and migration or dispersal limitations in response to land management and landscape changes (Menges, 2000; Higgins et al., 2003; Leibold et al., 2004).”
Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi‐terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal abilities sampled in the same plots (2011, background): “One of the most promising theoretical frameworks concerning species distributions, diversity and coexistence is the metacommunity concept, which has developed rapidly in recent years (Leibold et al., 2004; Cottenie, 2005; Ng et al., 2009; Pandit et al., 2009; Okuda et al., 2010).”
Contribution of neutral processes to the assembly of gut microbial communities in the zebrafish over host development (2015, methodology): “…framework in which we consider the microorganisms associated with individual zebrafish hosts to be local communities that are a part of a broader metacommunity consisting of the microorganisms associated with all of the hosts in the population (Leibold et al., 2004; Costello et al., 2012).”
Contrasting responses of arable spiders to the landscape matrix at different spatial scales (2007, background): “Metacommunity theory describes the interactions between multiple communities that are linked via dispersal (Levin, 1974; Leibold et al., 2004).”
Coexistence of the niche and neutral perspectives in community ecology. (2006, background): “…how cooccurrence of such species might be affected at local scales (spatiotemporal scales that correspond to that of individual fitness and population regulation) and at metacommunity scales (interconnected local communities that affect each other’s assembly histories and subsequent dynamics).”