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Community Ecology: A Workshop held at Davis, CA, April 1986 (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, 77) by Simon A. Levin (auth.), Alan Hastings (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Community Ecology: A Workshop held at Davis, CA, April 1986 (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, 77) about?

This book presents the proceedings of a workshop on community ecology organized at Davis, in April, 1986, sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. There have been several recent symposia on community ecology (Strong et. al., 1984, Diamond and Case, 1987) which have covered a wide range of topics. The goal of the workshop at Davis was more narrow: to explore the role of scale in developing a theoretical approach to understanding communities. There are a number of aspects of scale that enter into attempts to understand ecological communities. One of the most basic is organizational scale. Should community ecology proceed by building up from population biology? This question and its ramifications are stressed throughout the book and explored in the first chapter by Simon Levin. Notions of scale have long been important in understanding physical systems. Thus, in understanding the interactions of organisms with their physical environment, questions of scale become paramount. These more physical questions illustrate the role scale plays in understanding ecology, and are discussed in chapter two by Akira Okubo. Erscheinungsdatum: 09.11.1988

Who reads Community Ecology: A Workshop held at Davis, CA, April 1986 (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, 77)?

Author

Simon A. Levin (auth.), Alan Hastings (eds.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9783540503989

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Mathematics, Science