The Anthropocene presents formidable threats to freshwater ecosystems. Lakes are
especially vulnerable and important at the same time. They cover only a small area …

Metacommunity ecology addresses the situation where sets of local communities are
connected by the dispersal of a number of potentially interacting species. Aquatic systems …

The metacommunity concept is an important way to think about linkages between different
spatial scales in ecology. Here we review current understanding about this concept. We first …

Many cities around the world are expanding and this trend in urbanization is expected to
sharply increase over coming decades. At the same time, the integration of green and blue …

Metacommunity theory has advanced understanding of how spatial dynamics and local
interactions shape community structure and biodiversity. Here, we review empirical …

The processes controlling the abundances of species across multiple sites form the
cornerstone of modern ecology. In these metacommunities, the relative importance of local …

Recent research has demonstrated that ponds contribute a great deal to biodiversity at a
regional level as networks of habitat patches that also act as 'step** stones' to facilitate the …

We present a model of a source-sink competitive metacommunity, defined as a regional set
of communities in which local diversity is maintained by dispersal. Although the conditions of …

Emergence of the metacommunity concept has made a substantial contribution to better
understanding of the community composition and dynamics in a regional context. However …

Table of Contents: 1. Metacommunities: a framework for large-scale community
ecology/Marcel Holyoak, Mathew A. Leibold, Nicolas M. Mouquet, Robert D. Holt and Martha …