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The content on this page was transplanted from the old article at open community (before that page was updated to reflect more general usage). --09:39, 19 Dec 2008 (UTC)

Articles that may be used as reference http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00608.x/full http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199830060/obo-9780199830060-0011.xml http://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/the-impact-of-community-policing-meta-analysis-of-its-effects-in-u-s-cities https://www.hsaj.org/articles/183 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arianarodfiol (talk • contribs) 00:17, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Information to use for Article A closed community is a community that interacts only with the people that live in it, which means everyone else living outside of it is excluded. The concept of defining a community is still out in the open. For this reason, the community concept has been an ecological topic yet to concur since the mid-20th century. One of the first people to title the concept of a community was Frederic Clements in 1916. He also opened the study of a to be looked at and experimented by ecologists. "Clements considered the different species in a community as being tightly integrated and interdependent, much like the organs that make up a plant or animal, leading him to use the metaphor of the community as a “complex organism”. (Clements 1916). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arianarodfiol (talk • contribs) 03:56, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]