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A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as a guiding framework? As it turns out, the core focus of communi...
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Vellend, Mark, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Theory of Ecological Communities (MPB-57) / Mark Vellend. MPB Series: 57 Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016] ©2017 1 online resource (248 p.) : 2 halftones. 56 line illus. 9 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Monographs in Population Biology ; 57 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Approaches, Ideas, and Theories in Community Ecology -- 2. How Ecologists Study Communities -- 3. A Brief History of Ideas in Community Ecology -- Part II. The Theory of Ecological Communities -- 4. The Pursuit of Generality in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology -- 5. High- Level Processes in Ecological Communities -- 6. Simulating Dynamics in Ecological Communities -- Part III. Empirical Evidence -- 7. The Nature of Empirical Evidence -- 8. Empirical Evidence: Selection -- 9. Empirical Evidence: Ecological Drift and Dispersal -- 10. Empirical Evidence: Speciation and Species Pools -- Part IV. Conclusions, Reflections, and Future Directions -- 11. From Process to Pattern and Back Again -- 12. The Future of Community Ecology -- References -- Index -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as a guiding framework? As it turns out, the core focus of community ecology-understanding patterns of diversity and composition of biological variants across space and time-is shared by evolutionary biology and its very coherent conceptual framework, population genetics theory. The Theory of Ecological Communities takes this as a starting point to pull together community ecology's various perspectives into a more unified whole.Mark Vellend builds a theory of ecological communities based on four overarching processes: selection among species, drift, dispersal, and speciation. These are analogues of the four central processes in population genetics theory-selection within species, drift, gene flow, and mutation-and together they subsume almost all of the many dozens of more specific models built to describe the dynamics of communities of interacting species. The result is a theory that allows the effects of many low-level processes, such as competition, facilitation, predation, disturbance, stress, succession, colonization, and local extinction to be understood as the underpinnings of high-level processes with widely applicable consequences for ecological communities.Reframing the numerous existing ideas in community ecology, The Theory of Ecological Communities provides a new way for thinking about biological composition and diversity. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Biotic communities. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110638592 print 9780691164847 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400883790 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400883790 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400883790.jpg |
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