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Spatial Metacommunity Structure

Spatial Metacommunity Structure is a theoretical construct in community ecology that defines the spatially explicit organization of species assemblages across interconnected habitats, distinguished by the integration of species turnover, dispersal dynamics, and environmental gradients within a metacommunity framework.

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402

Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities

Don A. Driscoll · Austral Ecology · 2006 · 1.1K citations

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Community Patterns in Source‐Sink Metacommunities

Nicolas Mouquet, Michel Loreau · The American Naturalist · 2003 · 1.1K citations

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Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms

T. De Bie, Luc De Meester, Luc Brendonck et al. · Ecology Letters · 2012 · 725 citations

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Contrasts between habitat generalists and specialists: an empirical extension to the basic metacommunity framework

Shubha N. Pandit, Jurek Kolasa, Karl Cottenie · Ecology · 2009 · 688 citations

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Complex Interactions in Metacommunities, with Implications for Biodiversity and Higher Levels of Selection

David Sloan Wilson · Ecology · 1992 · 626 citations

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Authors

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  1. JH
    Jani Heino

    Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

    27 publications · 2.2K citations

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  2. LD
    Luc De Meester

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    12 publications · 2K citations

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  3. PR
    Pedro R. Peres‐Neto

    Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

    10 publications · 760 citations

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  4. MA
    Mathew A. Leibold

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    10 publications · 1K citations

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  5. SJ
    Steven J. Presley

    University of Connecticut, United States

    10 publications · 834 citations

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Institutions

630

  1. Finnish Environment Institute

    Helsinki, Finland

    23 h-index

    55 publications

    4.5K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    20 h-index

    84 publications

    5.2K citations

  3. Universidade Federal de Goiás

    Goiânia, Brazil

    16 h-index

    27 publications

    2.5K citations

  4. HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research

    Budapest, Hungary

    15 h-index

    33 publications

    1.6K citations

  5. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    15 h-index

    44 publications

    7.5K citations

  6. University of Oulu

    Oulu, Finland

    15 h-index

    41 publications

    4K citations

  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    13 h-index

    56 publications

    2.1K citations

  8. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    13 h-index

    22 publications

    2K citations

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  1. Oikos

    30 publications · 2.6K citations

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  2. Ecology

    32 publications · 3.6K citations

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  3. Ecography

    22 publications · 2.1K citations

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  4. PLoS ONE

    20 publications · 954 citations

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  5. Journal of Animal Ecology

    17 publications · 947 citations

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