Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics And Ecological Communities
Marcel Holyoak, Mathew A. Leibold, and Robert D. Holt(Edt) ISBN-10: 0226350649
INTRODUCTION
1. Metacommunities: a framework for large-scale community ecology
PART 1: Core concepts
2. The effects of spatial processes on two species interactions
3. Food web dynamics in a metacommunity context:
modules and beyond
PART 2: Empirical perspectives
4. Metacommunities of butterflies, their host plants,
and their parasitioids
5. Inquiline communities in pitcher plants as a prototypical
metacommunitiy
6. Local and regional community dynamics in fragmented landscapes:
insights from a bryophyte-based natural microcosm
7. Metacommunity structure influences the stability of local beetle
communities
8. Local interactions and local dispersal in zooplankton
metacommunity
9. Assembly of unequals in the unequal world of a rock pool
metacommunity
PART 3: Theoretical perspectives
10. The world is patchy and heterogeneous! Trade-off and
source-sink dynamics
in competitive metacommunities
11. Assembly dynamics in metacommunities
12. Scale transition theory for understanding mechanisms in
metacommunities
13. Applying scale transition theory to metacommunities in the field
PART 4: Emerging areas and perspectives
14. Competing theories for competitive metacommunities
15. Assembling and depleting species richness in metacommunities:
insights from ecology, population genetics, and macroevolution
16. Habitat selection, species interactions, and processes of
communitiy assembly in complex landscapes:
a metacommunity perspective
17. New perspectives on local and regional diversity:
beyond saturation
18. From metacommunities to metaecosystems
19. Adaptive and coadaptive dynamics in metacommunities:
tracking environmental change at different spatial scales
20. Future directions in metacommunity ecology
