David Haskell, an American biologist, observed during a year a parcel with a diameter of one meter of a forest of the Appalachians. From January to December, there has scanned the animal and plant world. "A masterpiece of ecology" ad - rightly - Jean-Marie Pelt, who knows the subject ... And in fact in D. Haskell naturalist attentive observer of the field doubles as a scholar fully informed - all 44 chapters of the book is accompanied by a solid bibliography, alas exclusively Anglo-American. The author also reveals a ready writer to give life to his descriptions, and philosopher questioning the place of man in nature.
Note massive recourse to the explanation by "natural selection", that the same JM Pelt denounces the occasion "as a verbal tic."
