Metacommunity ecology-
Landscape-scale perspectives

We combine DNA metabarcoding with a metacommunity analysis approach for exploring relationships between metapopulation and metacommunity assemblages at large regional spatial scales. We integrate taxonomic assignments and functional traits for understanding factors structuring metacommunity structure. These approaches are useful for improving our ability to predict how environmental change will impact biodiversity patterns across landscapes.

Fortin-Archambault, A., B.E. Beisner, and A.M. Derry. 2025. Trait clustering offers expanded insight into crustacean zooplankton metacommunity structuring processes in boreal lakes. Oikos – In Review

Martin, G. K., B. E. Beisner, F. J. J. Chain, M. E. Cristescu, del P. A., Giorgio, and A. M. Derry. 2021. Freshwater zooplankton metapopulations and metacommunities respond differently to environmental and spatial variation. Ecology 102(1): e03224. DOI

Negrín-Dastis, J.O., R. Milne, F. Guichard, and A.M. Derry. 2019. Phenotype–environment mismatch in metapopulations—Implications for the maintenance of maladaptation at the regional scale. Evolutionary Applications 12:1475–1486. DOI