"It is apparent that this book is the culmination of long and hard thinking about pattern in ecological communities, and how one might use the mathematics of fractals to develop a coherent thesis on how to integrate space and environmental heterogeneity into the theory of community structure. The work has a nice connection to classic thinking in community ecology. This is a well-written book."--Oswald J. Schmitz, Yale University
"This is an ambitious book that takes ideas from existing equilibrium-based ecological theory and adds the innovation that population equilibria are determined by resource use in a heterogeneous environment. The ideas the author presents are stimulating. There is no doubt in my mind that this is an important, timely book."--Brian A. Maurer, Michigan State University