Description
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 importance of distinct processes, with niche-based environmental sorting on one side and neutral-based ecological drift and dispersal limitation on the other. This book moves beyond these artificial categorizations, showing how environmental sorting, dispersal, ecological drift, and other processes influence metacommunity structure simultaneously.
Mathew Leibold and Jonathan Chase argue that the relative importance of these processes depends on the characteristics of the organisms, the strengths and types of their interactions, the degree of habitat heterogeneity, the rates of dispersal, and the scale at which the system is observed. Using this synthetic perspective, they explore metacommunity patterns in time and space, including patterns of coexistence, distribution, and diversity. Leibold and Chase demonstrate how these processes and patterns are altered by micro- and macroevolution, traits and phylogenetic relationships, and food web interactions. They then use this scale-explicit perspective to illustrate how metacommunity processes are essential for understanding macroecological and biogeographical patterns as well as ecosys
Chapter
3.3. Dispersal limitation
3.4. Interactions between stochasticity, dispersal, and interspecific effects
3.5. The influence of habitat heterogeneity
3.6. Interactions between habitat heterogeneity and dispersal
3.7. Implications for local versus regional controls on diversity
3.8. Conclusions and synthesis
4. Metacommunity Patterns in Space
4.1. Patterns of SADs and related diversity metrics
4.2. Null models and co-occurrence in metacommunities
4.3. Elements of metacommunity structure
4.4. Using variation partitioning to diagnose spatial, environmental, and random effects
4.5. Variation in the relative importance of metacommunity-structuring processes
4.6. Factors that influence variation in metacommunity patterns
4.7. Contributions of different species and different localities to the overall metacommunity pattern
4.8. How well can we hope to do in explaining metacommunity structure?
4.9. Caveats and conclusions
5. Interactions between Time and Space in Metacommunities
5.1. Temporal turnover: What does theory predict?
5.2. Patterns of temporal turnover
5.3. How time can influence deterministic community assembly
5.4. Priority effects and multiple stable equilibria in metacommunities
5.5. Endpoint assembly cycles
5.6. Frequency-dependent coexistence in spatially continuous metacommunities
6. What Can Functional Traits and Phylogenies Tell Us about Coexistence in Metacommunities?
6.1. A brief history of trait- and phylogeny-based “assembly rules”
6.2. The correlation between phylogenetic and trait-based information and “real” metacommunity processes
6.3. Trait and phylogenetic over- or underdispersion: What does coexistence theory predict?
6.4. Phylogenetic and functional-trait dispersions in a simple SS metacommunity
6.5. Phylogenetic and trait dispersions in non-SS metacommunity archetypes
7. Combining Taxonomic and Functional-Trait Patterns to Disentangle Metacommunity Assembly Processes
7.1. Using functional information to enhance taxonomic pattern analysis
7.2. Using functional information to enhance analyses of change through space or time
7.3. Toward a trait-based theory of metacommunity assembly
7.4. Closing the loop: Predicting species abundance and distribution from traits
8. Eco-evolutionary Dynamics in Metacommunities
8.1. Building an evolutionary ecology of metacommunities
8.2. Adaptive evolution in metapopulations and metacommunities
8.3. The community monopolization hypothesis
8.4. Evolution toward neutrality
8.5. Frequency-dependent evolution
8.6. The interaction of community monopolization and neutral evolution
8.7. The interaction between community monopolization and neutral evolution in the “real” world?
9. Macroevolution in Metacommunities
9.1. How metacommunity processes influence phylogeny and radiations
9.3. Synthesis: A research agenda for integrating evolutionary and ecological processes that affect biodiversity
10. The Macroecology of Metacommunities
10.1. What is macroecology?
10.2 Synthesizing biodiversity macroecology processes and patterns
10.3 Dissecting biodiversity macroecology patterns
10.4. The role of metacommunity assembly processes in biodiversity macroecology patterns
10.5. Diversity partitioning and the SAR
10.6. Metacommunity assembly and the nested SAR
10.7. Metacommunity assembly and the ISAR
10.8. Biodiversity in the Anthropocene
10.9. Metacommunities and contemporary biogeography: Scale-dependent patterns of species diversity along ecological gradients
10.10. Other macroecological patterns
11. Food Webs in Metacommunities
11.1. How do spatial processes and trophic interactions combine to influence coexistence in simple metacommunities?
11.2. How do trophic interactions influence metacommunity processes?
11.3. Toward a theory for trophically structured metacommunities
11.4. Spatial processes and May’s diversity-stability theory
11.5. Frequency dependence and feedbacks between trophic interactions and spatial processes
11.6. Food-web metacommunity assembly processes and the scale-dependent productivity-diversity relationship
11.7. The influence of metacommunity processes on food-web structure and indirect interactions
12. Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems in Metacommunities
12.1. The role of spatial processes in mediating BEF relationships
12.2. A simple framework based on resource competition in a metacommunity context
12.3. Ecosystems within metacommunities as CASs?
12.4. Do ecosystems have regular features?
13. From Metacommunities to Metaecosystems
13.1. Why spatial dynamics are so important in ecosystems
13.2. Elements of metaecosystems ecology
13.3. An emerging set of principles?
14. A Coming Transition in Metacommunity Ecology
14.1. The accomplishments of metacommunity ecology version 1.x
14.2. Synthesis through metacommunity ecology
14.3. The current status and limitations of metacommunity version 1.9
14.4. Going from version 1.9 to version 2.0
14.5. From basic to applied metacommunity ecology
Metacommunity Ecology, Volume 59
( Monographs in Population Biology )
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