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metacommunity: a standalone construct

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metacommunity1 CONSTRUCTMetacommunityLEIBOLD · ECOLOGY

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Ecology

a set of local communities linked by dispersal of many interacting species, studied through patch dynamics, species sorting, mass effects and neutral paradigms.

In ecology, metacommunity refers to a set of local communities linked by dispersal of many interacting species, studied through patch dynamics, species sorting, mass effects and neutral paradigms. This meaning comes from Leibold (2004) in Ecology Letters.[1]

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  1. Leibold, M. A., Holyoak, M., Mouquet, N., Amarasekare, P., Chase, J. M., Hoopes, M. F., Holt, R. D., Shurin, J. B., Law, R., Tilman, D., Loreau, M., & Gonzalez, A. (2004). The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology. Ecology Letters, 7(7), 601-613. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00608.x

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