Biological communities as functionally organized units

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2018-2024

  Wilson, David Sloan ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex dynamics; Ecosystem ecology; Functional organization; Group selection; Multilevel selection; Mutualism; Superorganism

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION; GROUP SELECTION; MULTILEVEL SELECTION;

EID: 0031284548     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[2018:BCAFOU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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