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Resource Competition and Community Structure. (MPB-17), Volume 17.

One of the central questions of ecology is why there are so many different kinds of plants and animals. Here David Tilman presents a theory of how organisms compete for resources and the way their competition promotes diversity. Developing Hutchinson's suggestion that the main cause of diversit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tilman, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Pr., 1982.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What Are Resources?
  • 3. Competition for a Single Resource
  • 4. Competition for Two Resources
  • 5. Spatial Heterogeneity, Resource Richness, and Species Diversity
  • 6. Resource Ratios and the Species Composition of Plant Communities
  • 7. A Comparison with Classical Competition Theory
  • 8. Space as a Resource, Disturbance, and Community Structure
  • 9. Concluding Questions and Speculations
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index