| Description |
xii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Introduction: The scope and goals of research on assembly rules / Paul Keddy and Evan Weiher -- Pt. I. The search for meaningful patterns in species assemblages. 1. The genesis and development of guild assembly rules / Barry J. Fox. 2. Ruling out a community assembly rule: the method of favored states / Daniel Simberloff, Lewi Stone and Tamar Dayan. 3. Community structure and assembly rules: confronting conceptual and statistical issues with data on desert rodents / Douglas A. Kelt and James H. Brown. 4. Introduced avifaunas as natural experiments in community assembly / Julie L. Lockwood, Michael P. Moulton and Karla L. Balent. 5. Assembly rules in plant communities / J. Bastow Wilson. 6. Assembly rules at different scales in plant and bird communities / Martin L. Cody. 7. Impact of language, history and choice of system on the study of assembly rules / Barbara D. Booth and Douglas W. Larson -- Pt. II. Other perspectives on community assembly |
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8. On the nature of the assembly trajectory / James A. Drake, Craig R. Zimmerman and Tom Purucker / [et al.]. 9. Assembly rules as general constraints on community composition / Evan Weiher and Paul Keddy. 10. A species-based, hierarchical model of island biogeography / Mark V. Lomolino. 11. Interaction of physical and biological processes in the assembly of stream fish communities / Elizabeth M. Strange and Theodore C. Foin. 12. Functional implications of trait-environment linkages in plant communities / Sandra Diaz, Marcelo Cabido and Fernando Casanoves. 13. When does restoration succeed? / Julie L. Lockwood and Stuart L. Pimm. 14. Epilogue: From global exploration to community assembly / Paul Keddy |
| Summary |
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 systems |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Online version of the print title |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Biotic communities.
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| Author |
Keddy, Paul A., 1953-
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Weiher, Evan, 1961-
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ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
98044324 |
| ISBN |
0521652359 (hc.) |
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