Concluding Remarks

  1. G. Evelyn Hutchinson
  1. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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This concluding survey1 of the problems considered in the Symposium naturally falls into three sections. In the first brief section certain of the areas in which there is considerable difference in outlook are discussed with a view to ascertaining the nature of the differences in the points of view of workers in different parts of the field; no aspect of the Symposium has been more important than the reduction of areas of dispute. In the second section a rather detailed analysis of one particular problem is given, partly because the question, namely, the nature of the ecological niche and the validity of the principle of niche specificity has raised and continues to raise difficulties, and partly because discussion of this problem gives an opportunity to refer to new work of potential importance not otherwise considered in the Symposium. The third section deals with possible directions for future research.

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    1 I wish to thank all the participants for their kindness in sending in advance manuscripts or information relative to their contributions. All this material has been of great value in preparing the following remarks, though not all authors are mentioned individually. Where a contributor's name is given without a date, the reference is to the contribution printed earlier in this volume. I am also very much indebted to the members (Dr. Jane Brower, Dr. Lincoln Brower, Dr. J. C. Foothills, Mr. Joseph Frankel, Dr. Alan Kohn, Dr. Peter Klopfer, Dr. Robert MacArthur, Dr. Gordon A. Riley, Mr. Peter Wangersky, and Miss Sally Wheatland) of the Seminar in Advanced Ecology, held in this department during the past year. Anything that is new in the present paper emerged from this seminar and is not to be regarded specifically as an original contribution of the writer.

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  1. doi:10.1101/SQB.1957.022.01.039 Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 22: 415-427

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