Step 1: Community ecology has debated for over a century whether a community behaves as an integrated unit or as a loose collection of independently distributed species, giving rise to the holistic theory and the individualistic theory respectively, with the neutral theory as a newer statistical alternative explaining diversity patterns.
Step 2: Raymond Lindemann is remembered for a completely different idea, the 10 percent law and the trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology, which quantifies how energy is transferred between producers, consumers and decomposers.
Because this is about energy flow and not about how species assemble into a community, it does not belong on a list of community theories.
