Divergent perspectives on community convergence.
Recent experimental and theoretical studies of community development, as well as more general studies of complex systems, indicate that historical differences and intrinsic indeterminism can lead to long-term community divergence. This observation has sparked a series of new investivations of community structure in systems that developed under controlled or natural conditions.
Complex Systems Group, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
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