The Croonian lecture, 1995 Natural communities: structure and dynamics
Open Access
- 30 September 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 351 (1344) , 1113-1129
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1996.0097
Abstract
A review is undertaken of various concepts in community ecology that relate to observed patterns in nature; these are species richness, diversity, guild structure, niche structure, constancy of structure, succession and the bionomic profile of communities. This understanding may allow us to better predict the effects of changes we are making in our environment.This publication has 107 references indexed in Scilit:
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