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species sorting: a standalone construct

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speciessorting1 CONSTRUCTSpecies sortingLEIBOLD · COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

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Community ecology

the metacommunity view in which local environmental conditions select which species persist in each patch, with dispersal sufficient to let species track suitable sites.

In community ecology, species sorting refers to the metacommunity view in which local environmental conditions select which species persist in each patch, with dispersal sufficient to let species track suitable sites. This meaning comes from Leibold (2004) in Ecology Letters.[1]

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metacommunity1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructcommunity5 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, five constructspatch1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

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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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