Nature 373:32 (January 5, 1995):

"Huston's book is a bold attempt to find a common link, a grand unifying theory, underpinning many of the major patterns in the way in which organisms assemble themselves into communities on the face of the planet. ... full of interesting, untested ideas, underpinned by a unifying theory that now requires rigorous quantitative examination. Therein lies its major challenge to ecologists, faced with understanding the variety and distribution of life on Earth, before human beings obliterate most of it."

John Lawton, Imperial College