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Resource Competition and Community Structure. (Mpb-17), Volume 17

Resource Competition and Community Structure. (Mpb-17), Volume 17

Tilman, David

Paperback

Series: Monographs in Population Biology, Book 17

Environmental StudiesEvolution

ISBN10: 0691083029
ISBN13: 9780691083025
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Aug 21 1982
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.49
Language: English

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 diversity is the feeding relations of species, this book builds a mechanistic, resource-based explanation of the structure and functioning of ecological communities. In a detailed analysis of the Park Grass Experiments at the Rothamsted Experimental Station in England, the author demonstrates that the dramatic results of these 120 years of experimentation are consistent with his theory, as are observations in many other natural communities.


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