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Final Remarks

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Throughout this book, we created a snapshot of most of the approaches and theories regarding ways to study the spatial distribution of organisms. The succession of sections showed a great diversity of viewpoints, which is typical of a growing discipline. There are fields of knowledge that are borne with great strength and are installed in the options of the market theory and other traditional branches of ecology which find ways to adapt to this need to incorporate the geographical dimension. We followed a hierarchical presentation, based on a classification of levels of organisation, which were defined operationally rather than formally. We have defined a total of six main levels—individuals, aggregations, societies, subpopulations, populations, and species—and two supplementary levels: genes and species assemblages. The reason for choosing this organisation of the book is simple and has to do with the history of the emergence of different theoretical models. Each ecological school has approached the problem of spatial distribution based on their own traditions, and many new paradigms have emerged regardless of previous models. In some cases, such as the movement ecology and species distribution models, they originated from new methodological developments (technical or statistical) rather than from the evolution of new ideas.

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Cassini, M.H. (2013). Final Remarks. In: Distribution Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6415-0_12

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