Disentangling the roles of environment and space in ecology
Date
2007-10
Authors
Currie, David J.
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Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Most core problems in ecology revolve around variations of the abundance, diversity or metabolic activity of organisms through time and space. Our fundamental questions are: ‘Why are there more organisms (or more kinds of organisms, or different kinds of organisms, etc.) here than there?’ Although I will focus on abundance in this commentary, the same question can be asked about spatial patterns of diversity, productivity, community structure, body size, etc.
Description
The original publication is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01808.x/full
Keywords
Environmental characteristics, Ecology, Spatial variation, Environmental biology, Spatial autocorrelation
Citation
Currie, D. J. 2007. Disentangling the roles of environment and space in ecology. Journal of Biogeography, 34: 2009–2011. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01808.x