HOMOLOGICAL SERIES AND THEORETICAL ECOLOGY

Abstract

Different variants of the parallel variability (homology) of ecological objects referred to different classes are considered. Envisioned is an in-principle possibility of using the N.I. Vavilov’s law of homological series at the levels of populations (a variant of the periodic system of group behavior of animal populations), communities (exemplified with both close and distant types of plant communities), and theoretical constructs of modern ecology (subordination schemes of the basic concepts that are meant to describe the «core of ecological theory» or «central conceptual link»).