shallow lakes

Metacommunity Structure: Synergy of Biotic Interactions as Selective Agents and Dispersal as Fuel

The relative importance of regional and local processes in determining community structure is a long-standing problem in community ecology. This is especially problematic in communities from highly connected habitats, which undergo two opposing …

Connectivity and cladoceran species richness in a metacommunity of shallow lakes

1. The shallow ponds of the nature reserve ‘De Maten’ form a metacommunity, in which individual ponds are highly interconnected via a system of overflows and rivulets. This study reports on the relations between cladoceran species richness and (a) …