As we begin to look more closely, however, the story is not so simple. Some places that seem to present near- identical environmental conditions are nonetheless home to very different sets of species. Some pairs of species seem to live in very similar types of environments but almost never i...
Vellend M. The theory of ecological communities. Monographs in population biology. Princeton: University Press; 2016.Vellend, M. 2016. The theory of ecological communi- ties (MPB-57). Princeton University Press, Prince- ton, New Jersey, USA....
The primary goal of ecological theory at the community level is to understand diversity at local and regional scales. Recent work has emphasized that a great deal of diversity in communities may depend on trade-offs. For example, a trade-off between competitive prowess and colonization ability is...
Ecological communities Assemblages of living organisms that occur together in an area. The nature of the forces that knit these assemblages into organized systems and those properties of assemblages that manifest this organization have been topics of intense debate among ecologists since the beginning of...
We will make further progress in the project to study and develop Marxist theory. In philosophy and the social sciences, we will work faster to develop Chinese systems for fields of study, academia, and discourse, and we will cultivate a pool of talent...
Many minority peoples have part of their population living in one or more compact communities and the rest are scattered across the country. China's northwest and southwest are the two regions where minority peoples are most concentrated. Western China, consisting of nine provinces, three autonomous...
Current ecological theory An established body of theory exists for plant and animal ecology but the differ- ences between microorganisms and 'large' organisms, and the extent to which these dif- ferences restrict the applicability of existing theory to microbial ecology, often form an impasse that...
To ensure that cities and urban ecosystems support human wellbeing and overall quality of life we need conceptual frameworks that can connect different scientific disciplines as well as research and practice. In this perspective, we explore the potential
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The Party put forward the theory of the differentiation of the three worlds and made the promise that China would never seek hegemony, earning respect and acclaim from the international community and developing countries in particular. The Party fully foresaw the new challenges it would face after ...