Talk:Community ecology

Includes information from Barbour, Burke, and Pitts, 1987. Terrestrial Plant Ecology, 2nd ed. Cummings, Menlo Park, CA.

I see two problems with this page. The first is that the parenthetical clause "(not precisely the same thing as population ecology)" makes no sense. Community ecology is clearly defined in such a way that it is not remotely the same thing as population ecology. Looking back through the history of the page, it is clear that this clause originally had an entirely different context. The second problem is the argument that populations are the most appropriate level at which to study species. This is inappropriate here. A brief discussion of community ecology should explain why community ecology is important, not argue that some other discipline (population ecology) is actually the only one that scientists think is important (which is false). Additionally, this argument appears verbatim on the population ecology page, where it is appropriate.

Does anyone object to my correcting these two things?Justinleif 21:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Go for it. Guettarda 22:09, 12 March 2007 (UTC)