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Old growth attributes by chain saw: how between-patch heterogeneity changes the metacommunities of beetles in temperate forests
Oliver Mitesser, Marc W. Cadotte, Akira S. Mori…·Jörg Müller
The paper experiments with structural heterogeneity in forests to determine its impact on beetle metacommunities, finding increased species diversity and support for mass-effect and species-sorting processes.