Description: The first text to adopt a Darwinian approach to develop a universal, coherent and robust theory of ecology and provide a unified treatment of ecology and evolution.
Review Quotes: "The book is written from an especially unique and original perspective, not only in terms of its general organization, but also in its particular treatment of various topics such as competitive exclusion and the ecological niche.[...] although the book is undoubtedly far from being the last word on the subject, it revitalizes and thus hopefully contributes to fulfilling the dream of the 1960s and 1970s: having a unified population biology, based on simple foundational principles that can be used to explain the living world around us." -- György Barabás, The Quarterly Review of Biology
"[Theory-Based Ecology] nicely demonstrates that a good ecological theory must be based on Darwinian principles, but also show[s] the usefulness of such a theory for empirical ecological research by laying down a series of ideas that field and experimental ecologists might test in their work." -- Lars Gtzenberger and Jan Lep, Conservation Biology