Community assembly and the emergence of ecosystem pattern
A fundamental problem challenging natural scientists is to understand how macroscopic patterns, such as population abundance distributions and element ratios, emerge and are sustained in ecosystems, given that evolution typically operates most strongly at the level of individuals and their genomes....
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2001-12-01
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| author | Simon A. Levin Jonathan Dushoff Juan E. Keymer |
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| description | A fundamental problem challenging natural scientists is to understand how macroscopic patterns, such as population abundance distributions and element ratios, emerge and are sustained in ecosystems, given that evolution typically operates most strongly at the level of individuals and their genomes. How do such patterns persist in the face of evolutionary innovation? In this paper, we explore this issue through dynamical models of community assembly and metapopulation dynamics in dynamic landscapes, and discuss individual-based approaches to the control of element cycles. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1d405959e8a4e5db04786bd4e274f832022-12-21T22:00:21ZengConsejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasScientia Marina0214-83581886-81342001-12-0165S217117910.3989/scimar.2001.65s2171685Community assembly and the emergence of ecosystem patternSimon A. Levin0Jonathan Dushoff1Juan E. Keymer2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton UniversityDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton UniversityDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton UniversityA fundamental problem challenging natural scientists is to understand how macroscopic patterns, such as population abundance distributions and element ratios, emerge and are sustained in ecosystems, given that evolution typically operates most strongly at the level of individuals and their genomes. How do such patterns persist in the face of evolutionary innovation? In this paper, we explore this issue through dynamical models of community assembly and metapopulation dynamics in dynamic landscapes, and discuss individual-based approaches to the control of element cycles.http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/691community assemblycompetitive coexistenceecosystem patternpatch dynamicsredfield ratiosresiliency |
| spellingShingle | Simon A. Levin Jonathan Dushoff Juan E. Keymer Community assembly and the emergence of ecosystem pattern Scientia Marina community assembly competitive coexistence ecosystem pattern patch dynamics redfield ratios resiliency |
| title | Community assembly and the emergence of ecosystem pattern |
| title_full | Community assembly and the emergence of ecosystem pattern |
| title_fullStr | Community assembly and the emergence of ecosystem pattern |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community assembly and the emergence of ecosystem pattern |
| title_short | Community assembly and the emergence of ecosystem pattern |
| title_sort | community assembly and the emergence of ecosystem pattern |
| topic | community assembly competitive coexistence ecosystem pattern patch dynamics redfield ratios resiliency |
| url | http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/691 |
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