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Animal ecologists have for many years studied populations rather than communities but only in the last 25 years has much attention been focussed on plant population biology. The study of population biology is complementary to the study of communities and is an extension of the autecological approach. Population dynamics is only a part of population biology.
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Sagar, G.R. (1982). An introduction to the population dynamics of weeds. In: Holzner, W., Numata, M. (eds) Biology and ecology of weeds. Geobotany, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0916-3_14
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