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Large-scale variation in carabid assemblages, with special reference to the local fauna concept
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Penev, Lyubomir |
| Copyright Year | 1996 |
| Abstract | Over 40 years ago, Carl Hildebrandt Lindroth stated in his prominent work entitled “Die Fennoskandischen Carabiden, Bd. 3” that “It is misleading to wish to establish complex units before their components are sufficiently known. Before one is familiar with the autecology of the species, synecology is impossible” (Lindroth 1992, p. 24). The few decades following this statement have been marked with an increasing interest in synecological aspects of biotic organization, i.e. assemblages or communities. The community paradigm prevailing over the individualistic one culminated in the 1970's until a back swing which has led us again to more speciesorientated ecological studies or even, in the recent years, to an individual-based ecology. I do not intend to present a historical review here, but I would like to stress that my paper will be devoted to a synecological or, better to say, synbiogeographical phenomenon, that is, large-scale variation in local groupings of carabid species. First, I would like to provoke a discussion on a definition of the local groupings of species, comLarge-scale variation in carabid assemblages, with special reference to the local fauna concept |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
