...This chapter examines ecological opportunities that are available to species in various positions within a biological community, with particular emphasis on identifying the criteria necessary for an ecological opportunity to exist. Before discussing what performance capabilities a species must have...

... structure is shaped by the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of species across a metacommunity. This introduction provides an overview of the evolutionary trajectories of various species in the context of ecological opportunity and community ecology, aggregated taxa in the trophic web, types of species...

..., along with intraguild predation and how ecological opportunity evolves within biological communities. It also investigates when neutral species will initially differentiate from one another to convert them into a set of coexisting species, and when differentiated species will initially converge...