Predator avoidance and foraging for food shape synchrony and response to perturbations in trophic metacommunities
The response of species to perturbations strongly depends on spatial aspects in populations connected by dispersal. Asynchronous fluctuations in biomass among populations lower the risk of simultaneous local extinctions and thus reduce the regional extinction risk. However, dispersal is often seen a...
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Academic Press
2021
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