Publisher's Synopsis
The proceedings of a symposium organized by the British Ecological Society, this text explores spatial and temporal patterns in the organization of communities past and present. It is written by ecologists with experience of a wide range of environments and organisms, from aquatic to terrestrial and from protistans to primates. The authors describe patterns on spatial scales that range from the microscopic to the global, and processes that range in time scale from minutes to millennia. Attention is drawn to unifying and contrasting themes in the organization of communities that differ widely in habitat and taxonomic composition.
