Taxonomic and functional components of avian metacommunity structure along an urban gradient.

ABSTRACT: Identifying biological processes that structure natural communities has long interested ecologists. Community structure may be determined by various processes, including differential responses of species to environmental characteristics, regional-level spatial influences such as dispersal, or stochasticity generated from ecological drift. Few studies have used the metacommunity paradigm (interacting communities linked by dispersal) to investigate avian community composition along an urban gradient, yet such a theoretical construct may provide insights into species turnover even in unnatural settings such as rural to urban gradients. We measured the influence of spatial and environmental characteristics on two aspects of avian community structure across a gradient of urbanization: 1) taxono

SUBMITTER: Stukenholtz EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9362948 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature