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Metacommunity ecology /

"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 h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Leibold, Mathew A. (Autor), Chase, Jonathan M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2018.
Colección:Monographs in population biology ; 59.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the rise, fall, and rise again of metacommunity ecology
  • The theories of metacommunities
  • Processes in metacommunities
  • Metacommunity patterns in space
  • Interactions between time and space in metacommunities
  • What can functional traits and phylogenies tell us about coexistence in metacommunities?
  • Combining taxonomic and functional-trait patterns to disentangle metacommunity assembly processes
  • Eco-evolutionary dynamics in metacommunities
  • Macroevolution in metacommunities
  • The macroecology of metacommunities
  • Food webs in metacommunities
  • Community assembly and the functioning of ecosystems in metacommunities
  • From metacommunities to metaecosystems
  • A coming transition in metacommunity ecology.