Fausto Nomura

Oct 7, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Thiago Gonçalves-Souza |Fausto Nomura |Franco Leandro Souza |Michel V. Garey

1 INTRODUCTION The metacommunity processes associated with the spatial and temporal variation in species abundance are scale dependent (Chase et al., 2018), so the range of scales that affect species must be explicitly considered (Levin, 1992). This integration essentially includes variations in geographical grain and extent. Increasing grain size results in increases within-grain heterogeneity while decreasing intergrain variation (Barton et al., 2013).