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Table 1 Summary of our predictions for associations between metacommunity paradigms, species functional traits, and species extirpation, colonization as well as turnover rates for winter residents (WR), winter visitors (WV), summer residents (SR) and summer visitors (SV) in the Thousand Island Lake, China

From: Spatiotemporal distribution of seasonal bird assemblages on land-bridge islands: linking dynamic and static views of metacommunities

Predictions

Temporal dynamics

Functional associations

Confirmed

Extirpation rate

Colonization rate

Turnover rate

Dispersal ability

Habitat specificity

SR and SV

Low (supported)

Low to medium (supported)

Low (supported)

Low to medium (not specific)

Strong (supported)

Species sorting

WR or WV

High (supported)

Medium to high (supported)

High (supported)

Medium to high (not specific)

Weak (partly supported)

Patch dynamics

WV

Random (supported)

Random (supported)

High (supported)

Low to medium (supported)

None (supported)

Neutral dynamics

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Low

High

Low

High

Strong

Mass effects