The Pattern of Animal Communities

by Charles S. Elton

Book Overview

THE ECOLOGICAL SURVEY on which this book is based began to be planned in 1942, and since 1945 has been mainly centred upon Oxford University's estate at Wytham Woods, where a rich series of habitats from open ground and limestone to woodland with many springs and marshes interspersed occupies a hill set in riverine surroundings. Here biological research workers from the University have accumulated a considerable body of knowledge, some of which I...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0412218801
• ISBN13: 9780412218804
• Release Date: May 1979
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"