Offers a unifying framework for community ecology by addressing how communities are assembled from species pools.
These are analogues of the four central processes in population genetics theory—selection within species, drift, gene flow, and mutation—and together they subsume almost all of the many dozens of more specific models built to describe ...
This is an up-to-date study of patterns and processes involving two or more species. The book strikes a balance between plant and animal species and among studies of marine, freshwater and terrestrial communities.
A comprehensive account of joint species distribution modelling, covering statistical analyses in light of modern community ecology theory.
Mark McPeek synthesizes the ecological and evolutionary dynamics generated by species interactions that structure local biological communities and regional metacommunities.
This is important to our understanding of the planets biological diversity and how species interactions relate to the functioning of ecosystems at all scales.
Tilman, D., Lehman, C.L. & Bristow, C.E. 1998. Diversity–stability relationships: statistical inevitability or ecological consequence? The American Naturalist 151: 277–282. Tilman, D.,Reich, P.B., Knops,J., Wedin, D., Mielke, T.& Lehman ...
This multi-author text has been planned as a companion to the successful volumes on theoretical ecology, behavioural ecology and physiological ecology mentioned elsewhere in this catalogue. The editors have covered...
Evolutionary Community Ecology makes a valuable and timely step toward this end. Crafting a synthetic understanding of ecological communities, this book is full of insights and excellent examples.
Each mathematical section has been carefully structured and fully explained in biological terms. Community Ecology presents a refreshingly readable course text for advanced undergraduates in ecology."--BOOK JACKET.
And, twenty years later still, in a symposium sponsored by the American Institute for Biology Sciences (Riley 1963), Hutchinson began one conversation saying, “I would like Dr. Riley to give us some ideas of the possibility of organisms ...