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A detailed exposition of the most common mathematical models in population and community ecology, covering exponential and logistic population growth, age-struc

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Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demon

Ecological community data. Spatial pattern analysis. Species-abundance relations. Species affinity. Community classification. Community ordination. Community in