“…For instance, spatial heterogeneity is key to ensuring species coexistence and diversity at the regional scale, which ultimately provides important ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes (Bennett et al, 2006). A large corpus of theoretical studies explored the local response of communities in a landscape receiving perturbations (Economo, 2011; Holyoak et al, 2020; Jacquet et al, 2022; Mouquet et al, 2011). However, these studies focused on extinction events recovered by dispersal events in a patch dynamics framework, and little is known about the effect of moderate or small perturbations.…”