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Community Ecology

A Workshop held at Davis, CA, April 1986

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Alan Hastings

    1. Department of Mathematics and Division of Environmental Studies, University of California, Davis, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics (LNBM, volume 77)

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Table of contents (8 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Pattern, Scale, and Variability: An Ecological Perspective

    • Simon A. Levin
    Pages 1-12

  3. Planktonic Micro—Communities in the Sea: biofluid mechanical view

    • Akira Okubo
    Pages 13-24

  4. When Should You Include Age Structure

    • Alan Hastings
    Pages 25-34

  5. Spatial Aspects of Species Interactions: the Wedding of Models and Experiments

    • P. Kareiva, M. Andersen
    Pages 35-50

  6. Interactions Between Environment and Competition: How Fluctuations Mediate Coexistence and Competitive Exclusion

    • Peter L. Chesson
    Pages 51-71

  7. Untangling ‘An Entangled Bank’: Recent Facts and Theories About Community Food Webs

    • Joel E. Cohen
    Pages 72-91

  8. The Geometry of Niches

    • Stuart L. Pimm
    Pages 92-111

  9. The Dynamics of Highly Aggregated Models of Whole Communities

    • Peter Yodzis
    Pages 112-131

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 132-133
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About this book

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.

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  • Department of Mathematics and Division of Environmental Studies, University of California, Davis, USA

    Alan Hastings

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