Our paper "The stability of competitive metacommunities is insensitive to dispersal connectivity in a fluctuating environment" is finally published!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/729601
In this study, we investigated spatial factors that could impact the stability of metacommunity using simulations with spatiotemporally different environmental settings.
While many previous studies on metacommunity stability exist, the challenge was the large number of parameters in the system and different focuses between previous studies. We developed simulations with flexible settings to address this challenge.
Our analysis suggested that the size of metacommunity was important on metacommunity stability; While the impact of the size itself was not surprising, it was surprising that its impact often dominated other spatial factors such as topology and dispersal rate.
We showed that the impact of size was associated with the number of fluctuation regimes in environmental condition.
