A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE ECO-DARWINIAN PARADIGM

Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022     |     PP. 1-10      |     PDF (343 K)    |     Pub. Date: January 14, 2022
DOI: 10.54647/biology18175    86 Downloads     6229 Views  

Author(s)

Edmundas Lekevičius, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Abstract
Species diversity is supported by trophic specialisation and the variability of environmental conditions in space and time, in other words, it is a form of the division of labour (a);Biodiversity helps to stabilise the functions (essential variables) of individuals, populations, and ecological communities (b);The emergence of biodiversity is determined by heritable variation and the advantage of specialised (more effective) structures over non-specialised ones (c);Biodiversity is characterised by its ability to increase itself and to organise itself during succession and/or evolution into relatively consistent structures, which we call production pyramids and nutrient cycles; in a certain sense, the ‚ontogenesis‘ of communities recapitulates their ‚phylogenesis‘. (d).

Keywords
biodiversity, maintenance, function, origin, evolution, self-organisation, vacant niches

Cite this paper
Edmundas Lekevičius, A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE ECO-DARWINIAN PARADIGM , SCIREA Journal of Biology. Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022 | PP. 1-10. 10.54647/biology18175

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