The amazing complexity of ecological metacommunities Published: Ecosystems are hugely complex. Every animal, plant, fungus and microbe is interacting with countless others, as well as with their ever-changing environment. Understanding these intertwining relationships is highly challenging, but Dr Mathew Leibold, from the University of Florida in the US, believes it is possible. He champions the concept of ‘metacommunities’, which…
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