Metacommunities

Table of Contents: 1. Metacommunities : a framework for large-scale community ecology / Marcel Holyoak, Mathew A. Leibold, Nicolas M. Mouquet, Robert D. Holt and Martha F. Hoopes 2. The effects of spatial processes on two species interactions / Martha F. Hoopes, Robert D. Holt and Marcel Holyoak 3. Food web dynamics in a metacommunity context : modules and beyond / Robert D. Holt and Martha F. Hoopes 4. Metacommunities of butterflies, their host plants, and their parasitoids / Saskya van Nouhuys and Ilkka Hanski 5. Inquiline communities in pitcher plants as a prototypical metacommunity / Thomas E. Miller and Jamie M. Kneitel 6. Local and regional community dynamics in fragmented landscapes : insights from a bryophyte-based natural microcosm / Andrew Gonzalez 7. Metacommunity structure influences the stability of local beetle communities / Kendi F. Davies, Brett A. Melbourne, Chris R. Margules and John F. Lawrence 8. Local interactions and local dispersal in a zooplankton metacommunity / Karl Cottenie and Luc De Meester 9. Assembly of unequals in the unequal world of a rock pool metacommunity / Jurek Kolasa and Tamara N. Romanuk 10. The world is patchy and heterogeneous! : trade-off and source-sink dynamics in competitive metacommunities / Nicholas Mouquet, Martha F. Hoopes and Priyanga Amarasekare 11. Assembly dynamics in metacommunities / Richard Law and Mathew Leibold 12. Scale transition theory for understanding mechanisms in metacommunities / Peter Chesson, Megan J. Donahue, Brett A. Melbourne and Anna L. W. Sears 13. Applying scale transition theory to metacommunities in the field / Brett A. Melbourne, Anna L. W. Sears, Megan J. Donahue and Peter Chesson 14. Competing theories for competitive metacommunities / Jonathan M. Chase, Priyanga Amarasekare, Karl Cottenie, Andrew Gonzalez, Robert D. Holt, Marcel Holyoak, Martha F. Hoopes, Mathew A. Leibold, Michel Loreau, Nicolas Mouquet, Jonathan B. Shurin and David Tilman 15. Assembling and depleting species richness in metacommunities : insights from ecology, population genetics, and macroevolution / Mark A. McPeek and Richard Gomulkiewicz 16. Habitat selection, species interactions, and processes of community assembly in complex landscapes : a metacommunity perspective / William J. Resetarits, Jr., Christopher A. Binckley and avid R. Chalcraft 17. New perspectives on local and regional diversity : beyond saturation / Jonathan B. Shurin and Diane S. Srivastava 18. From metacommunities to metaecosystems / Michel Loreau, Nicolas Mouquet and Robert D. Holt 19. Adaptive and coadaptive dynamics in metacommunities : tracking environmental change at different spatial scales / Mathew A. Leibold, Robert D. Holt and Marcel Holyoak 20. Future directions in metacommunity ecology / Robert D. Holt, Marcel Holyoak and Mathew A. Leibold.