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A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as a guiding framework? As it turns out, the core focus of community ecology―understanding patterns of diversity and composition of biological variants across space and time―is shared by evolutionary biology and its very coherent conceptual framework, population genetics theory. The Theory of Ecological Communities takes this as a starting point to pull together community ecology's various perspectives into a more unified whole.
Mark Vellend builds a theory of ecological communities based on four overarching processes: selection among species, drift, dispersal, and speciation. These are analogues of the four central processes in population genetics theory―selection within species, drift, gene flow, and mutation―and together they subsume almost all of the many dozens of more specific models built to describe the dynamics of communities of interacting species. The result is a theory that allows the effects of many low-level processes, such as competition, facilitation, predation, disturbance, stress, succession, colonization, and local extinction to be understood as the underpinnings of high-level processes with widely applicable consequences for ecological communities.
Reframing the numerous existing ideas in community ecology, The Theory of Ecological Communities provides a new way for thinking about biological composition and diversity.
- Sales Rank: #657931 in Books
- Brand: Mark Vellend
- Published on: 2016-09-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x .80" w x 6.10" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 248 pages
- The Theory of Ecological Communities
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"In 1986, Thomas W. Schoener wrote a thought-provoking book chapter describing ecological communities along five organismal and five environmental axes. It was thought-provoking in the sense that Schoener attempted to unify community ecology using a minimal set of variables at a time when ecologists were doubtful of any unifying principle in community ecology. After three decades of Schoener's chapter, community ecologists are still divided about whether there could be a general theory of community. . . . Mark Vellend elegantly attempts to bridge this divide by introducing the theory of high-level processes in ecological communities in his Princeton Population Monograph entitled The Theory of Ecological Communities."--Madhav P. Thakur, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
"Vellend (biology, Univ. de Sherbrooke, Canada) provides a useful historical account of the wide variety of methods used in the field to lay the foundation for his proposed resolution of the resulting ‘mess.’ The book is well written, profusely referenced, and a worthy addition to the distinguished ‘Monographs in Population Biology’ series from Princeton University Press."--Choice
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"This is a much-needed synthesis on the key processes shaping ecological communities. Vellend puts his theoretical framework in historical context, presents testable hypotheses derived from the theory, and evaluates them in an extensive review of the empirical literature. Vellend's framework and synthesis will help community ecologists make significant progress in our understanding of how nature works."--Diego P. Vázquez, Argentine Institute for Dryland Research and National University of Cuyo
"Many people have suggested that community ecology is a morass of unique cases. Vellend's book audaciously challenges this view. Borrowing from evolution, he proposes just four general rules to cover all of community ecology. He fleshes this out with detailed examples, R code, and a mapping between his framework and traditional concepts. All community ecologists will have to respond to Vellend in their work, as this is the rare book that will dominate the discussion for years to come."--Brian McGill, University of Maine
"With clear and succinct definitions of complex ideas, this book constructs a theory of ecological communities based on fundamental processes of selection, drift, dispersal, and speciation. Vellend offers a useful framework that includes evolution as well as ecological factors and he makes a significant contribution to the field."--Marcel Holyoak, University of California, Davis
"This book is a selective review of the sprawling field of community ecology. Vellend provides an impressive conceptual synthesis that helps students and practitioners pull together the discipline's wide range of perspectives into a coherently organized whole."--Robert Holt, University of Florida
About the Author
Mark Vellend is professor of biology at the Université de Sherbrooke. He is a 2015 recipient of an E. W. R. Steacie Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Good proposal to organize the "mess" of community ecology
By Diogo B. Provete
If you're familiar with John Lawton famous claim that "community ecology is a mess" or even if you're a practicising community ecologist, you should definetely give this book a try. I have read it in an online book club and had an amazing opportunity to discuss it more in length than I'd do if I have read it alone. Having said that, I think the book serves two main purposes: 1) organize the jungle of ecological theories that apply to a community and 2) find high-level processes and stablish a hierarchical structure for them. The author expands the ideas of his 2010 paper in Q. Rev. Biol. applying to ecology the ideas commonly used in population genetics and evolution that classify processes into four big high-level forces: migration, mutation, selection, and drift. In an ecological community these would turn into dispersal, speciation, selection, and ecological drift.
I personally think the book succeeds in organizing the mess of the discipline and it's surely a great way to present those theories to new undergrad or even grad students entering the field. On the other hand, I think it'd take sometime for practicising ecologists to incorporate the way of thinking that Vellend puts forward, I think I'd not have an immediate impact in the way people do science everyday.
So, why 4 stars? As a post doc having worked in the field since my master's I think the book structure is sometimes a little bit confusing, in other parts he talks about dense subjects more en passant than it should, specially in the beginning. I really enjoyed the way the rest of the book is organized in the form of big questions that the author answers.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent book for all levels of researchers interested in such ...
By Amazon Customer
Excellent book for all levels of researchers interested in such topic. The book is very well structured; brings all the theory associated with community ecology so far in a synthetic and comprehensible way. Highly recommended.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great
By Hari Venu Radha
Great Book, a must for community-ecology students
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