Table of Contents
Bio 160 - Avery Communities - great debate
Introduction
Make a list of factors that define a community.
I. Community - definitions
D. Guild - related to communities:
II. The Nature of the Community
1. Frederic Clements
2. H.A. Gleason
3. Current status -
4. Class opinion-
PPT Slide
Communities are sometimes described as
Evidence has been found to support each view
I. Characterizing Communities
D. Interest stimulated b y G.E. Hutchinson
II. Quantifying Diversity
3. Rank abundance
4. Distribution of relative abundances
a. Frank Preston 1948 - Lognormal distribution
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b. Why do we see this pattern?
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Author: William E. Avery
Email: averyw@csus.edu
Home Page: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/a/averyw/bio160/lectures3.htm
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