Categories: ecological theory

5 August 2013 07:00

Umeå ecologist overthrows generally accepted principles in ecology

Contemporary ecological theory assumes that differently sized individuals in a population are equally efficient in their use of food resources. But this is just an exception. It is much more common that ecological patterns occur in nature in conflict with these generally accepted rules. This is shown by Lennart Persson at Umeå university and André De Roos at the University of Amsterdam.