| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 418 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Dʹiaz, Marcelo Cabido, Fernando Casanoves -- When does restoration succeed? / Julie L. Lockwood, Stuart L. Pimm -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biotic communities.
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Biotic communities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Weiher, Evan, 1961-
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Keddy, Paul A., 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ecological assembly rules. Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521652359 (DLC) 98044324 (OCoLC)39887145 |
| ISBN |
0511040490 (electronic book) |
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9780511040498 (electronic book) |
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0511153910 |
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9780511153914 |
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051104822X |
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9780511048227 |
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0511174225 (electronic book) |
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9780511174223 (electronic book) |
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0521652359 (Cloth) |
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