Beyond metacommunity paradigms: habitat configuration, life history, and movement shape an herbivore community on oak

摘要: Many empirical studies of metacommunities have focused on the classification observational patterns into four contrasting paradigms characterized by different levels movement and habitat heterogeneity. However, deeper insight underlying local regional processes may be derived from a combination long-term data experimental studies. With aim exploring forces structuring insect metacommunity oak, we fit hierarchical Bayesian state-space model to observations experiments. The fitted reveals large variation in species-specific dispersal abilities basic reproduction numbers, R0. residuals show only weak correlations among species, suggesting lack strong interspecific interactions. Simulations with model-derived parameter estimates indicate that configuration species attributes both contribute substantially communities. Overall, our findings demonstrate community-level life history are key drivers dynamics.