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Concepts and problems.
Nonequilibrium in communities.
Interspecific competition: definition and effects on species.
Interspecific competition: effects in communities and conclusion.
Noncompetitive mechanisms responsible for niche restriction and segregation.
Patterns over evolutionary time, present mass extinctions.
Some detailed examples at the population/metapopulation level.
Some detailed examples at the community level.
Some detailed biogeographical/macroecological patterns.
An autecological comparison: the ecology of some Aspidogastrea.
What explains the differences found? A summary, and prospects for an ecology of the future.
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