Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches (Interspecific Interactions)
Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches (Interspecific Interactions)
Why do species live where they live? What determines the abundance and diversity of species in a given area? What role do species play in the functioning of entire ecosystems? All of these questions share a single core concept—the ecological niche. Although the niche concept has fallen into disfavor among ecologists in recent years, Jonathan M. Chase and Mathew A. Leibold argue that the niche is an ideal tool with which to unify disparate research and theoretical approaches in contemporary ecology.
Chase and Leibold define the niche as including both what an organism needs from its environment and how that organism’s activities shape its environment. Drawing on the theory of consumer-resource interactions, as well as its graphical
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Review for Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches (Interspecific Interactions)
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The book is written primirally as an answer to the The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography of Stephen Hubbel.
This book brings a new view about a core ecological concept: The Niche. Sometimes ignored by its controversial place in the ecological literature of the past 50 years, Chase and Leibold reinvigorate the concept with a new approach, mainly based on the recource competition modules of Tilman (1980, 1982, 1988). The authors bring the niche to the ground of current ecological theory. One of the desapointments I had when reading this book was its strong theoretical perspective. The reader is faced with the fact that all the theory presented by the authors is not readly broght to the real world. Otherwise, the authors emphasize its role (and merits) in providing new testable predictions about species abundance and distribution in ecological communities. Despite this fact, the book is extremely well written and is worthreading. Specially for me, it was extremely usefull in shaping my ideas about my Master Thesis and inperpreting my resuls about community structure of anuran larvae.
Review for Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches (Interspecific Interactions)
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I bought this book as a primer on niche theory. The book is decent enough, but my copy started falling apart literally a week after I bought it. I was reading it in a high humidity environment, but still there is no excuse for selling a book that is so poorly made.