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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton Univ. Pr.,
1982.
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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