The 2014 Ramon Margalef Prize to David Tilman: An innate curiosity about nature

摘要

Since his first studies on the ecological relationships among planktonic fresh water organisms, the contribution of Prof. David Tilman to the understanding of ecology has been enormous. His ideas on competition for resources and the importance of space in population dynamics and interspecific interactions, gave birth to a new stochastic niche theory that modified classical niche theory and better described the actual functioning of nature.