Chapter 54.4, Problem 12LO

Summary Introduction

To describe: The two traditional views of the nature of communities, those are Clements’s organismic model and Gleason’s individualistic model.

Introduction: The process of explanation and inspection of patterns and procedures within the community is known as community ecology. Communities contain large number of individuals of different species those interact with each other and are independent in various ways. Every organism most plays one of the three important roles of the ecosystem in community life, namely producer, consumer, or decomposer.