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STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF COMPETITION-ORGANIZED ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES
Citation:
McKelvey, R. AND J. Apaloo. STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF COMPETITION-ORGANIZED ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-95/411.
Description:
It is frequently asserted that conservation biology can advance only by transcending the current species-by-species approach, and refocusing on whole-ecosystem preservation. trong scientific basis does not presently exist for carrying out ecosystem viability analysis, and in particular the theory of community ecology seems to be in disarray. ven classical equilibrium co-evolutionary theory, which remains the basis for much subsequent work seems to have dissolved into controversy. t is the view of the authors that much of this confusion and controversy has resulted from an excessive level of abstraction in the models employed, making it difficult to distinguish between individual and group control mechanisms, and confounding behavioral and evolutionary processes of adaption. n this report, they present a more mechanistic, less phenomenological class of models, in which these separate controls and processes are explicitly distinguished. hey believe this is the first attempt to systematically incorporate both behavioral optimization and strategic evolutionary processes into a single model.