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work_efp64hdmrvftjgyzqo4mt7ib3e	Christopher Hunter Lean	Indexically Structured Ecological Communities	2018	22	.pdf	application/pdf	10314	824	42	is, that ecological patterns are primarily explained by the rule-governed interaction of local populations within a community (Drake 1990; Ricklefs parts in community ecology are the populations that causally interact, creating feedback loops maintaining local populations and excluding external The populations that belong to an ecological community should act in ways that police the composition and stability of The lack of robust boundaries in ecological systems is revealed by the differing causal profiles of colocated populations. systems, I argue an ecological community is an individual when it is descriptively robust: if multiple different streams of evidence describe a congruent If populations have causal interaction profiles that describe the same ecological community with congruent boundaries and the same subparts, then that ecological communities were not real in the way species are real, as populations have continuous distributions over their ranges and species boundaries do not coincide.	./cache/work_efp64hdmrvftjgyzqo4mt7ib3e.pdf	./txt/work_efp64hdmrvftjgyzqo4mt7ib3e.txt