El Concepto de Nicho en las Metacomunidades
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2005
Abstract
The niche concept in metacommunities: The science of ecology studies how biological systems interact with their environment. The niche concept lies at the heart of this study because it describes how organisms at different levels of organization interact with their environment at different spatio-temporal scales. However, because different definitions and different perspectives about this concept have existed, confusion has emerged. In this paper we review how such perspectives might be synthesized and we consider how niche relations influence species interactions in metacommunities. We contrast some of the resulting insights with previous work focused on local communities and we use this synthesis to discuss the possible importance of drift mechanisms that exist in the absence of niche differences among species.
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Publication Title
Ecología Austral
Volume Number
15
First Page
117
Last Page
156
Recommended Citation
Leibold, Mathew A. and Geddes, Pamela, "El Concepto de Nicho en las Metacomunidades" (2005). Biology Faculty Publications. 23.
https://neiudc.neiu.edu/bio-pub/23
Comments
The full text of this article is in Spanish.