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

Dispersal knowledge is essential for conservation management, and demand is growing.
But are we accumulating dispersal knowledge at a pace that can meet the demand? To …

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

In a context of global changes, and amidst the perpetual modification of community structure
undergone by most natural ecosystems, it is more important than ever to understand how …

The diversity of life and its organization in networks of interacting species has been a long-
standing theoretical puzzle for ecologists. Ever since May's provocative paper challenging …

Current global changes make it important to be able to predict which interactions will occur
in the emerging ecosystems. Most of the current methods to infer the existence of …

The demand for projections of the future distribution of biodiversity has triggered an upsurge
in modelling at the crossroads between ecology and evolution. Despite the enthusiasm …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1010–1016 Abstract MacArthur and Wilson's Theory of Island
Biogeography (TIB) is among the most well‐known process‐based explanations for the …

Metacommunity theory provides an understanding of how spatial processes determine the
structure and function of communities at local and regional scales. Although metacommunity …

Food web topologies depict the community structure as distributions of feeding interactions
across populations. Although the soil ecosystem provides important functions for …