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Competition and Coexistence (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
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Competition and Coexistence (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
Series: Ecological Studies, 161
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The question "Why are there so many species?" has puzzled ecologist
for a long time. Initially, an academic question, it has gained
practical interest by the recent awareness of global biodiversity
loss. Species diversity in local ecosystems has always been
discussed in relation to the problem of competi tive exclusion and
the apparent contradiction between the competitive exclu sion
principle and the overwhelming richness of species found in nature.
Competition as a mechanism structuring ecological communities has
never been uncontroversial. Not only its importance but even its
existence have been debated. On the one extreme, some ecologists
have taken competi tion for granted and have used it as an
explanation by default if the distribu tion of a species was more
restricted than could be explained by physiology and dispersal
history. For decades, competition has been a core mechanism behind
popular concepts like ecological niche, succession, limiting
similarity, and character displacement, among others. For some,
competition has almost become synonymous with the Darwinian
"struggle for existence", although simple plausibility should tell
us that organisms have to struggle against much more than
competitors, e.g. predators, parasites, pathogens, and envi
ronmental harshness.
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