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Ecological assembly rules : perspectives, advances, retreats /

It is over twenty years since Jared Diamond focused attention on the possible existence of assembly rules for ecological communities. This volume provides a current status examination of the existence and nature of assembly rules, using both theoretical and empirical approaches in a variety of syste...

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Други автори: Weiher, Evan, 1961-, Keddy, Paul A., 1953-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Ecological assembly rules.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: The scope and goals of research on assembly rules / Paul Keddy, Evan Weiher
  • The genesis and development of guild assembly rules / Barry J. Fox
  • Ruling out a community assembly rule: the method of favored states / Daniel Simberloff, Lewi Stone, Tamar Dayan
  • Community structure and assembly rules: confronting conceptual and statistical issues with data on desert rodents / Douglas A. Kelt, James H. Brown
  • Introduced avifaunas as natural experiments in community assembly / Julie L. Lockwood, Michael P. Moulton, Karla L. Balent
  • Assembly rules in plant communities / J. Bastow Wilson
  • Assembly rules at different scales in plant and bird communities / Martin L. Cody
  • Impact of language, history and choice of system on the study of assembly rules / Barbara D. Booth, Douglas W. Larson
  • On the nature of the assembly trajectory / James A. Drake, Craig R. Zimmerman, Tom Purucker [and others]
  • Assembly rules as general constraints on community composition / Evan Weiher, Paul Keddy
  • A species-based, hierarchical model of island biogeography / Mark V. Lomolino
  • Interaction of physical and biological processes in the assembly of stream fish communities / Elizabeth M. Strange, Theodore C. Foin
  • Functional implications of trait-environment linkages in plant communities / Sandra D£iaz, Marcelo Cabido, Fernando Casanoves
  • When does restoration succeed? / Julie L. Lockwood, Stuart L. Pimm
  • Epilogue: From global exploration to community assembly / Paul Keddy.