The implications of palaeontological evidence for theories of ecological communities and species richness

摘要: Abstract Palaeontological evidence raises several questions that relate to current explanations of ecological communities, the classification communities and interpretations species richness. The first question relates stability detected in fossil record. Coupled with is issue incidental association on same trophic level through differential effects climatic change different species. Such observations are seen support ‘individualistic’ concept communities. Recent statements about this leave unresolved acquisition adaptation, place adaptation theory theories ‘regional richness’. At whether there justification for continuing classify as a basis understanding them. There good reason reject approach one which ‘local’ ‘regional’ richness replaced by more specific basic relationship between distribution abundance, interactions. Some recent efforts incorporate into community fail because their remains flawed ‘local community’.