Scale, heterogeneity, and the structure and diversity of ecological communities:
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Main Author: Ritchie, Mark E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press ©2010
Series:Monographs in population biology 45
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Community ecology lives -- - The geometry of heterogeneity -- - Scaling relationships for the consumption of resources -- - Food, resources, and scale-dependent niches -- - Size structure in ecological guilds -- - Heterogeneity and patterns of species diversity -- - Biodiversity conservation in fractal landscapes -- - Testing the model -- - Perspectives, caveats, and conclusions
Understanding and predicting species diversity in ecological communities is one of the great challenges in community ecology. Popular recent theory contends that the traits of species are "neutral" or unimportant to coexistence, yet abundant experimental evidence suggests that multiple species are able to coexist on the same limiting resource precisely because they differ in key traits, such as body size, diet, and resource demand. This book presents a new theory of coexistence that incorporates two important aspects of biodiversity in nature--scale and spatial variation in the supply of limit
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ISBN:0691090696
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