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3. Communities and species interactions
From the population level to that of communities ("species assemblages"), quantitative issues are diversifying: constructivist approaches studying interactions between two or more species, descriptive analysis of community structure and species-environment relationships, species assemblage models, consideration of the ecological functions of species... The field remains active and evolving.
3.1 Constructivist approaches: interaction models
The first models of multispecies dynamics were direct generalizations of the logistic model, proposed in the 1930s by Lotka and Volterra
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Bibliography
Software tools
R in ecology http://ecology.msu.montana.edu/labdsv/R/labs/R_ecology.html
E-SURGE and U-CARE, versatile software for analyzing capture-marking-recapture data http://www.cefe.cnrs.fr/fr/recherche/bc/bbp/1045-desc/264-logiciels
...Websites
Tree of life" project, aimed at gathering coherent information on biodiversity as a whole http://tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/abouttol.html
An overview of biodiversity bioinformatics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_informatics
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