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Organization Patterns in a Tritrophic Plant-Insect System: Hemipteran Communities in Hedges and Forest Margins

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Vertical Food Web Interactions

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 130))

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A central question of community ecology is “whether ecosystems are organized in a predictable way and which processes have formed them” (Zwölfer 1987, p 301). The term organization of ecological systems in this context means that one can identify patterns and structures that are ordered in some spatial and temporal way; there should be driving forces and adaptations of species that result in a system which can be predicted in — at least — basic structures (Zwölfer 1986). Plant-insect systems and their associated food webs build suitable models for analysing both the selective forces that underlie specific life-history traits of organisms and the vertical interactions between life histories on different trophic levels (Zwölfer 1988, 1994).

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Achtziger, R. (1997). Organization Patterns in a Tritrophic Plant-Insect System: Hemipteran Communities in Hedges and Forest Margins. In: Dettner, K., Bauer, G., Völkl, W. (eds) Vertical Food Web Interactions. Ecological Studies, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60725-7_16

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