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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/id/document/9254 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/id/document/9254 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/id/document/9254 archive 137 disk0/00/00/20/61 2015-04-16 06:11:59 2015-04-16 06:11:59 2015-04-16 06:11:59 article 395 show Brooker Rob rob.brooker@hutton.ac.uk Callaway Ray ray.callaway@mso.umt.edu Cavieres Lohen lcaviere@udec.cl Kikvidze Zaal zaal.kikvidze@iliauni.edu.ge Lortie Chris lortie@yorku.can Michalet Richared richard.michalet@u-bordeaux1.fr Pugnaire Francisco fip@eeza.csic.es Valiente-Banuet Alfonso avalib@gmail.com Whitham Thomas Thomas.Whitham@nau.edu pub QEC ins18 public Ricklefs’s recent call to investigate ecological processes at large scales helps focus ecologists’ attention on an undoubtedly important topic. However, we believe that some of his accompanying arguments for the primacy of such work and, in particular, for the need to “disintegrate” the local community concept are flawed. We revisit Ricklefs’s main tenets and demonstrate that research on local communities is a vital part of understanding processes and diversity across a range of spatial and temporal scales. The integration of research across spatial scales expands our horizons and understanding of ecology and evolution, and this should not be unnecessarily constrained to one extreme or the other. 2009 American Naturalist 174 919-927 TRUE