Résumé :
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This book deals with indices of diversity and evenness, problems of estimation and census, hierarchical diversity, species abundance distributions and the two kinds of explanatory models, resource-apportioning models and statistical models, the pattern of mosaics, competition on gradients, beta diversity, zonation, the ecological niche, species packing, co-existence of competitors, niche width and niche overlap, the influence of spatial heterogeneity, stable and unstable communities, latitudinal gradients, island diversity, diversity changes throughout geological time.
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