Partitioning Species Diversity: History and Implications
Whittaker’s work on diversity partitioning is doubtless one of the most influential in ecology. As a community/quantitative ecologist, my opinion . . . (3 Comments)
Tag: Theory
A new approach to the diversity-invasibility problem.
The relationship between the richness of a community and its risk of being invaded (invasibility) goes back to Darwin. He . . . (No Comments)
The Paradox of the Phytoplankton, Part 2: Why else do…
A week or so ago, I wrote a blog post in praise of Hutchinson’s seminal 1961 paper “The Paradox of . . . (17 Comments)
Ecology simplified
I want to preface this post by saying that I am not a theoretician. In fact, I often find long . . . (2 Comments)
The Paradox of the Phytoplankton: Why do we have so…
“The problem that is presented by the phytoplankton is essentially how it is possible for a number of species to . . . (4 Comments)
Food Webs and Species Diversity
The importance of trophic interactions (i.e., how species interact with one another for and as food) in determining the structure . . . (5 Comments)