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Solomon, M.E.
The natural control of animal populations
1949 Journal of Animal Ecology (18): 1-35
While an understanding of the processes which regulate the abundance of animal populations is fundamentally important both to applied biology and to ecology in general, it is a subject on which there are very considerable divergences of opinion. These divergences, which have been so much discussed during the past two or three decades, may be attributed to a number of causes: to the common tendency to embrace partial, one-sided explanations instead of seeking a comprehensive viewpoint; to the diverse views engendered by the study of ecologically different groups of animals, or by a too exclusive attention to either the biotic or the physical aspects of ecology; and, besides these outcomes of specialization, to confusion and misunderstanding over the use of certain terms.
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