Interest in host-associated microbiomes has skyrocketed recently, yet our ability to explain
microbiome variation has remained stubbornly low. Considering scales of interaction …

Metacommunity ecology combines local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic interactions)
and regional (eg, dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

The metacommunity concept has the potential to integrate local and regional dynamics
within a general community ecology framework. To this end, the concept must move beyond …

Habitat loss fragments metacommunities, altering the movement of species between
previously connected habitat patches. The consequences of habitat loss for ecosystem …

The legacy of the 'SL> SS principle', that a single or a few large habitat patches (SL)
conserve more species than several small patches (SS), is evident in decisions to protect …

The abundance and distribution of species across the landscape depend on the interaction
between local, spatial, and stochastic processes. However, empirical syntheses relating …

Microbes encompass tremendous biodiversity, provide support to all living forms, including
humans, and play an important role in many ecosystem services. The rules that govern …

Current analyses of metacommunity data largely focus on global attributes across the entire
metacommunity, such as mean alpha, beta, and gamma diversity, as well as the partitioning …

Although metacommunity ecology has been a major field of research in the last decades,
with both conceptual and empirical outputs, the analysis of the temporal dynamics of …