Customer Reviews

Community Ecology

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This book is a classic in community ecology. It provides a thorough background in all of the major areas in community ecology and is useful for undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers alike.

This is a very important book but unfortunately it's a very hard book to read. It is poorly organized and there are way too many examples with names and studies flung around with out much care to the actual ideas that are presented. Even as an advanced ecologist I found this very difficult. Many of the figures are pulled out of papers without giving much context or help to understand the purpose.

It is too bad. I read the whole thing and was able to parse down the important, main ideas. I doubt I'll go back to this book as a reference. It would be just too hard to find the information.

The product itself was exactly what I wanted. I was a little disappointed it didn't come sooner. I ordered it for my classes and thought it would come within 5-10 business days but ended up taking almost two and a half weeks to come, which was frustrating.

Great book. First comprehensive book in community ecology from both theoretical and empirical perspective.