Don't diss integration : a comment on Ricklefs's disintegrating communities
VALIENTE‐BANUET, Alfonso
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico [UNAM]
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico [UNAM]
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The American Naturalist. 2009, vol. 174, n° 6, p. 919–927
University of Chicago Press
Resumen en inglés
Ricklefs’s recent call to investigate ecological processes at large scales helps focus ecologists’ attention on an undoubtedly important topic. However, we believe that some of his accompanying arguments for the primacy ...Leer más >
Ricklefs’s recent call to investigate ecological processes at large scales helps focus ecologists’ attention on an undoubtedly important topic. However, we believe that some of his accompanying arguments for the primacy of such work and, in particular, for the need to “disintegrate” the local community concept are flawed. We revisit Ricklefs’s main tenets and demonstrate that research on local communities is a vital part of understanding processes and diversity across a range of spatial and temporal scales. The integration of research across spatial scales expands our horizons and understanding of ecology and evolution, and this should not be unnecessarily constrained to one extreme or the other.< Leer menos
Palabras clave
ECOLOGIE
BIOGÉOGRAPHIE
INTERACTION BIOTIQUE
INTERACTION POSITIVE
Palabras clave en inglés
BIODIVERSITY
BIOGEOGRAPHY
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
SCALE
BIOTIC INTERACTIONS
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Importado de HalCentros de investigación