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Nature 417, 229-230 (16 May 2002) | doi:10.1038/417229a
Biodiversity: Thinking big in ecology
Sean Nee
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Abstract
A conjunction of ecology and evolution has recently produced offspring — the discipline known as macroecology. This bonny baby takes a large-scale view of the world and finds it full of contradictions.
Occasionally, the purpose of an international conference is similar to that of a baby shower — to welcome a new arrival. In this case* the infant is the discipline of macroecology, in which the world is viewed on such large scales of time and space that ecology meets evolution.
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