Community ecology is a discipline that deals with the interrelationships between assemblages of plant and animal populations that live together at a particular time and in a particular place. A large body of information and theory has developed around this branch of ecology, which would be sufficient for a book in its own right. Therefore, it is not the purpose of this chapter to present an exhaustive treatment of community ecology, but rather to form a link between our concepts of population dynamics and those of community ecology.
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(2008). Interactions Between Many Species (Ecological Communities). In: Population Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6819-5_6
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