Metacommunity Ecology

by Mathew A. Leibold and Jonathan M. Chase

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology--such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity--with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity. Until now, the field has focused on evaluating the relative importance of distinct processes, with niche-based environmental sorting on one side and neutral-based ecological drift...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691049165
• ISBN13: 9780691049168
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.4"