Bio 160 - Avery Communities - great debate

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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-

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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?

Author: William E. Avery

Email: averyw@csus.edu

Home Page: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/a/averyw/bio160/lectures3.htm