Scale, Heterogeneity, and the Structure and Diversity of Ecological Communities

by Mark E. Ritchie

Book Overview

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 species are able to coexist on the same limiting resource precisely because they differ in key traits, such as body size, diet, and resource demand. This book presents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691090696
• ISBN13: 9780691090696
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"