Resource Competition and Community Structure. (MPB-17), Volume 17 / / David Tilman.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in Population Biology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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