One of the central questions of ecology is why there are so many different kinds of plants and animals. Here David Tilman presents a theory of how organisms compete for resources and the way their competition promotes diversity. Developing Hutchinson's suggestion that the main cause of diversity is the feeding relations of species, this book builds
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"Since their first monograph in population biology Princeton has regularly produced excellent innovative texts presenting to ecologists new ideas and new hypotheses to test ... [David Tilman's book] is no exception."--Naturalist
