Biodiversity Conservation in Metacommunity Networks: Linking Pattern and Persistence

摘要: AbstractA central goal of conservation science is to identify the most important habitat patches for maintaining biodiversity on a landscape. Spatial patterns are often used such assessments, and that harbor unique diversity generally prioritized over those with high community similarity other areas. This places an emphasis representation, but removing patch can have cascading effects persistence in remaining ecological communities. Metacommunity theory provides mechanistic route linking landscape subsequent dynamics loss after degraded. Using spatially explicit neutral theory, I focus situation where spatial generated by structure dispersal networks not environmental gradients. find gains representation nullified losses persistence, as result ...