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(does not contain TOC/references/index, sorry! will fix that as soon as it becomes available to me.) 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 spe

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Author

Mark Vellend

Publisher

Princeton University press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691208992

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Biology, Stem

Rating

4.17 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14