Resource Competition and Community Structure. (Mpb-17), Volume 17

by David Tilman

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 a mechanistic, resource-based explanation of the structure and functioning of ecological communities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691083029
• ISBN13: 9780691083025
• Release Date: August 1982
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"