FIGURE 1.

Conceptual framework. Idealized outcomes representing the patterns of community response to glacial–interglacial changes at the regional scale, evaluated by means of ordination analyses (NMDS) and correlation between abundances of species (black: pairwise comparison between the two interglacial units; green: comparisons between glacial and interglacial units). Each column shows one of the three idealized scenarios. Persistent pattern (a and d): Communities maintain species composition and diversity through environmental perturbations even though populations of constituent species shift spatially in concert with sea‐level changes. Resilient pattern (b and e): Communities shift to an altered state during the glacial period but return to previous composition with the re‐establishment of interglacial conditions. Stochastic pattern (c and f) unique species associations characterize communities from all three‐time periods