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Science 22 June 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5832, pp. 1699 - 1700
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141870
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ECOLOGY:
Remodeled Foundations

Simon A. Levin

Theoretical Ecology Principles and Applications. 3rd ed.
Robert M. May and Angela R. McLean, Eds.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. 267 pp. $120, £60. ISBN 9780199209989. Paper, $45, £29.95. ISBN 9780199209996.
The contributors offer an up-to-date overview of theories of the structure, function, and dynamics of populations and communities and of applications of these ideas to such issues as fisheries, infectious diseases, food supplies, climate change, and conservation biology.
The reviewer is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 213 Eno Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1003, USA. E-mail: slevin{at}eno.princeton.edu

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