supracommunity
A supracommunity is a conceptual framework describing a higher-order system that comprises multiple distinct communities and the interactions among them. It refers to a social, ecological, or infrastructural constellation in which processes cross community boundaries, generating collective dynamics that cannot be fully understood by examining a single community in isolation.
In practice, the term is used across disciplines to capture cross-boundary linkages. In ecology, supracommunity concepts
Key features of a supracommunity include interdependence among member communities, multi-scalar interactions, and the exchange of
The term is related to concepts such as the metacommunity in ecology and regional or intermunicipal networks