Community ecology

Community ecology

Community ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology which studies the distribution, abundance, demography, and interactions between coexisting populations. Interactions between populations, determined by specific genotypic and phenotypic characteristics, is the primary focus of community ecology.

Community ecology has its origin in European plant sociology. Modern community ecology examines patterns such as variation in species richness, equitability, productivity and food web structure; it also examines processes such as predator-prey population dynamics, succession, and community assembly. Patterns and processes in turn can be considered in terms of space and time, at different scales.

ee also

*Behavioral ecology
*Ecological effects of biodiversity
*Ecosystem ecology
*Population ecology

References

* Odum, E. P. 1959. "Fundamentals of ecology". W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia and London. 546 p.
* Barbour, Burke, and Pitts, 1987. "Terrestrial Plant Ecology", 2nd ed. Cummings, Menlo Park, CA.
* Ricklefs, R.E. 2005. "The Economy of Nature", 6th ed. WH Freeman, USA.


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