Metacommunity ecology /
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Author / Creator: | Leibold, Mathew A., author. |
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Imprint: | Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2018 |
Description: | xv, 491 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Monographs in population biology ; 59 Monographs in population biology ; 59. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11594293 |
Other authors / contributors: | Chase, Jonathan M., author. |
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ISBN: | 9780691049168 0691049165 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-463) and index. |
Summary: | "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 structures 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 ecosystem-level processes." -- rear cover. |
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