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  • 1 - Historical Development of Community Ecology

  • from Part I - Introduction to Community Ecology
  • Otso Ovaskainen, University of Helsinki, Nerea Abrego, University of Helsinki
  • Book:
    Joint Species Distribution Modelling
    Published online:
    18 May 2020
    Print publication:
    11 June 2020, pp 3-18

  • Summary

    This chapter gives a brief overview of the history of community ecology, starting from the early 20th century debates on how communities should be defined and continuing until the modern conceptual frameworks. The chapter covers the criticism of community ecology, the views and theories that mainstreamed its avenue and the current unifying theoretical frameworks. The chapter discusses how the scale dependency of community processes is one of the main sources of criticism and disagreement among community ecologists. We introduce the early contrasting views and theories, such as the organismic versus individualistic continuum concepts of communities and the niche versus neutral theories. We further discuss the current unifying theoretical frameworks, such as the metacommunity framework, the assembly rules framework and Vellend’s Theory of Ecological Communities. Most importantly, the chapter introduces the concepts and ideas that underlie the ecological assumptions behind species distribution models in general, and Hierarchical Modelling of Species Communities (HMSC) in particular.