Barriers to adaptive reasoning in community ecology

Biological Reviews

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 543-548

  Mclachlan, Athol J ^a   Ladle, Richard J ^b,c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ecosystem concept; Functional traits; Phenotype; Scale

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; RESEARCH;

EID: 79960392741     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00159.x     Document Type: Article

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