Resource competition and community structure
Auteur :
Tilman, David
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691083025
Date de publication :
21 août 1982
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Poids :
340 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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