Scale, heterogeneity, and the structure and diversity of ecological communities /:

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 spe...

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1. Verfasser: Ritchie, Mark E., 1960-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Schriftenreihe:Monographs in population biology ; 45.
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Zusammenfassung: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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Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400831685
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