Metacommunity ecology highlights the importance of integrating simultaneously
environmental filtering and spatial processes, such as mass effects and dispersal limitation …

Unraveling the ecological factors that control variation in local community structure in space
and time is fundamental to metacommunity ecology. In this scenario, environmental filtering …

Aim Changes in land use and cover (hereafter land use) affect freshwater ecosystems at
different spatial scales. We tested the effects of land use on the dispersal capacity of stream …

Metacommunity ecology emphasizes that community structure and diversity are not only
determined by local environmental conditions through environmental filtering, but also by …

Understanding ecological processes that drive metacommunity dynamics is essential for
elucidating the mechanisms of community assembly and for guiding biodiversity …

Identifying the underlying ecological drivers of macroinvertebrate community assembly is
fundamental to metacommunity ecology. Comparably, determining the influence of different …

Most metacommunity studies indicate that dispersal processes play a minor role compared
with species sorting in explaining metacommunity organisation, in particular, in stream …

Metacommunity studies commonly use spatial distances or, more recently, landscape
resistance measures between study sites as a surrogate for connectivity. However, local …

Environmental heterogeneity and dispersal limitation are important drivers of beta diversity;
however, their relative influence on the two fundamental components of beta diversity (ie …

The emergence of metacommunity theory has significantly contributed to our understanding
of the drivers of community assembly and biome variation. The Network Location Hypothesis …