Abstract Purpose of Review We conducted a literature review to understand how landscape
patterns affect ecological processes in metacommunities in lentic environments. Our aim …

Aim Mountain systems offer excellent opportunities to understand β‐diversity patterns and
the processes driving them. However, β‐diversity patterns and the underlying mechanisms …

Anurans exhibit limited dispersion ability and have physiological and behavioural
characteristics that narrow their relationships with both environmental and spatial predictors …

Anuran distribution patterns can be influenced by structural and dynamic characteristics of a
habitat. In floodplains—such as the South American Pantanal wetlands—cyclic changes …

Beta diversity can be portioned into local contributions to beta diversity (LCBD), which
represents the degree of community composition uniqueness of a site compared to …

Environmental and spatial filtering collectively regulate zooplankton communities, while their
relative contributions to community structure may change with seasonal variations and flow …

Even at the local scale, environmental changes due of anthropogenic actions represent a
source of disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, forcing species to respond according to their …

Temporal scale in animal communities is often associated with seasonality, despite the large
variation in species activity during a diel cycle. A gap thus remains in understanding the …

We investigated the role of local and landscape environmental variables on anurans density
classified as habitat specialists and generalists in grassland landscapes, known as South …

Most species-rich communities consist of a limited number of common species and many
rare species. This widespread ecological pattern can arise due to the predominance of …