Functional trait sorting increases over succession in metacommunity mosaics of fish assemblages.

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Metacommunity theory predicts that the relative importance of regional and local processes structuring communities will change over time since initiation of community assembly. Determining effects of these processes on species and trait diversity over succession remains largely unaddressed in metacommunity ecology to date, yet could confer an improved mechanistic understanding of community assembly. To test...

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