The recognition of patchy and heterogeneous landscapes has been important in the ecology of communities, this has allowed to evaluate in a more realistic way their dynamics and structure in a hierarchy of interrelated spatial scales (local and regional) within a scheme of metacommunities, where species in local communities potentially...
This thesis evaluates the community structure of protégé organisms within the Prosopis laevigata’s microcosm in the Zapotitlan valley, Puebla, Mexico in “Helia Bravo Hollis” Botanical Garden. The study of community structure required a meta-community approach that considered temporal and spatial factors. Using methodologies derived from multivariate analysis, assembly patterns of...