Eugene Odum’s theory is said to be a “linealdescendant of the organismic tradition in ecology” (McIntosh 1980, 229; Bergandi 1995).Frederic Clements’ theory of ecological communities is regarded as an epitome or that tradition (Clements 1996, 1936). After all, Eugene Odum’s view of the development of ecosystems corresponds especially to the Clementian understanding (Kirchhoff 2007, 230; Voigt 2009, 216). This is remarkable in so far as the concept of the ecosystem contradicted