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.
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*Macroecology: Reconciling Divergent Perspectives on Large-scale Ecological Patterns, British Ecological Society Symposium, 16–19 April, Birmingham, UK.
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Nee, S. Thinking big in ecology. Nature 417, 229–230 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417229a
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