The phrase "spatial community" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group of individuals or entities that share a common physical space or geographic area.
Example: "The spatial community of the urban neighborhood has come together to address local environmental issues."
Alternatives: "geographic community" or "physical community."
"I've argued that what black Seattle was trying to do, and is trying to do to this day, was come to grips with the fact that it's no longer a spatial community," said Quintard Taylor, a professor at the University of Washington who has written a history of blacks in the city and runs a Web site, blackpast.org.org
Spatial community turnover, measured as the slope of the dissimilarity-distance relationship, was not influenced by the proportion of OSR at any time.
Therefore, it is expected that there exist numerous stable states of spatial community structure when juveniles and adults can colonize multiple habitats with different environmental conditions.
The consistency in the data trend highlights small variations among independent spatial communities.
The partner association indexes and the R → A ← L : C ← L ratios of simulated cooperating and cheating spatial communities were compared at different levels of localization of benefits.
In particular we look at two examples which extend the results above: a set of coupled spatial communities so that the force of infection within each patch is related to both the local and global prevalence of infection; and a set of uncoupled spatial communities, where the internal populations can be risk-structured.
For the coupled spatial communities, we set the degree of within and between transmission as: R 0 ij = R 0 σ n if i ≠ j R 0 1 − (n − 1 ) σ n if i = j where n is the number of spatial communities (Keeling et al., 2004).
We started all spatial communities at ∼8 × 10 total cells/mm in a ∼2 mm-diameter spot and liquid communities at 5 × 10 total cells/ml in 3 ml SD.
We begin by initially considering non-interacting spatial communities (hence setting R 0 ij = 0 whenever i ≠ j), such that the final epidemic size can be calculated independently for each using Eq. (2).
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00960.004 10.7554/eLiFigure60.005 Figure 1 figure supplement 2. In experimental spatial communities, cooperators R → A ← L are favored over cheaters C ← L. (A – D ) In the communities of heterotypic cooperation and cheating, the R → A ← L : C ← L ratio increased over time before leveling off.
Moreover, the main dengue vector Ae. aegypti typically travels short distances [ 15], but human mobility patterns have been shown to contribute significantly to the heterogeneous transmission patterns of dengue at different spatial scales (community, provincial, regional) [ 8].
