Boping Han

Nov 4, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Jianhao Lin |Mark Urban |Luc De Meester |Boping Han

AbstractThe metacommunity framework provides a theoretical framework for understanding how dispersal alters species distribution patterns at different spatial scales. Dormancy is a strategy that decreases the extinction risk and can be viewed as dispersal over time, shaping the assembly dynamics of populations and communities. However, dormancy has only recently been recognized as a potentially important mediator of metacommunity-level processes.