Commentary: The Organismic Community: Resilience of an Embattled Ecological Concept
- 1 July 1980
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 30 (7) , 465-471
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1307949
Abstract
Though eroded among plant ecologists, support for Clements' organismic view persists among animal, microbial, and ecosystem ecologists and at the interfaces of ecology and evolution. Real communities, moreover, fall at different points within the gap separating Clements' concept and Gleason's individualistic concept. Each view remains a useful touchstone.Keywords
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