Habitat isolation diminishes potential of self-organised pattern formation to promote local diversity in metacommunities
Louica Philipp,
Toni Klauschies,
Christian Guill
Abstract:Progressive destruction and isolation of natural habitat is a major threat to biodiversity worldwide. In this study we use a trophic metacommunity model with complex, spatially explicit structure to address how the interaction of local and regional processes affects the functional diversity of autotroph (producer) communities within and between individual habitat patches. One important driver of biodiversity in metacommunities is spatial heterogeneity of the environment, as it enables source-sink dynamics betw… Show more
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