书目名称 | The Pattern of Animal Communities | 编辑 | Charles S. Elton | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | THE ECOLOGICAL SURVEY on which this book is based began to be planned in 1942, and since 1945 has been mainly centred upon Oxford University‘s estate at Wytham Woods, where a rich series of habitats from open ground and limestone to woodland with many springs and marshes interspersed occupies a hill set in riverine surroundings. Here biological research workers from the University have accumulated a considerable body of knowledge, some of which I have arranged in a general setting that allows one to comprehend some of the inter-related parts of the whole system. It is also intended to provide a framework for understanding animal communities elsewhere. The ecological inquirer is, more than most scien tific people, apt to fmd himself lost in a large labyrinth of interrelations and variables. The dictionary defmes a labyrinth as ‘an intricate structure of inter communicating passages, through which it is difficult to fmd one‘s way without a clue‘. This could equally be a figurative description of plant and animal communi ties. The present book seeks to provide a plan of construction of the labyrinth and a few new clues that may help the inquirer to know where he is on the gene ral | 出版日期 | Book 1966 | 关键词 | Meadow; biological; classification; forest; fungi; plant; structure; system; water | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5872-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-0-412-21880-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-5872-2 | copyright | Charles S. Elton 1966 |
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