We use metacommunity simulations to understand how local and regional community assembly dynamics influence the regional biodiversity patterns that we observe in the McMurdo Dry Valleys ecosystem. A metacommunity refers to a network of communities in an ecosystem that are connected to one another by the dispersal of biota among sites. For example, ponds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys share common diatom species that are likely dispersed among neighboring ponds by wind.
Date Range:
2014-03-01 to 2015-03-02
Data sources:
DOI:
10.6073/pasta/a123f47a9a4d409a0da8839eff280927
Dataset ID:
8006