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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Monographs in population biology ;
45. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.