Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, Advances, RetreatsEvan Weiher, Paul Keddy It is over twenty years since Jared Diamond focused attention on the possible existence of assembly rules for communities. Since then there has been a proliferation of studies trying to promote, refute, or test the idea that there are sets of constraints (rules) on community formation and maintenance (assembly). This timely volume brings together carefully selected contributions which examine the question of the existence and nature of assembly rules with some rigor and in some detail, using both theoretical and empirical approaches in a variety of systems. The result is a balanced treatment which encompasses a wide range of topics within ecology including competition and coexistence, conservation and biodiversity, niche theory, and biogeography. As such it provides much to interest a broad audience of ecologists, while also making an important contribution to the study of community ecology in particular. |
Contents
List of contributors | 1 |
Foin | 18 |
The genesis and development of guild assembly rules | 23 |
PO Box 450 Stn | 38 |
Lewi Stone | 45 |
the method | 58 |
confronting | 75 |
Department of Wildlife Fish Conservation Biology | 96 |
Department of Botany | 227 |
Department of Botany | 228 |
On the nature of the assembly trajectory James A Drake | 233 |
Department of Biology | 248 |
Assembly rules as general constraints on community | 251 |
A speciesbased hierarchical model of island biogeography | 272 |
James H Brown | 307 |
TN 37996 | 308 |
Department of Zoology | 103 |
Introduced avifaunas as natural experiments in community | 108 |
CA 95616 | 123 |
Department of Biological Sciences | 124 |
Assembly rules in plant communities J Bastow Wilson | 130 |
Fernando Casanoves | 148 |
Tel Aviv University | 160 |
Assembly rules at different scales in plant and bird | 165 |
Impact of language history and choice of system on the study | 206 |
Interaction of physical and biological processes in the assembly | 311 |
University of California | 334 |
Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology | 336 |
Functional implications of traitenvironment linkages | 338 |
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal | 357 |
When does restoration succeed? Julie L Lockwood | 363 |
From global exploration to community assembly | 393 |
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Common terms and phrases
American Naturalist archipelagoes assemblages assembly rules biogeography Biology biomass bird brown trout catostomid Cody coexistence community assembly community ecology community structure constraints cottid cyprinid data set density desert rodents Diamond diversity Drake droughts dynamics ecologists ecosystem effect environmental evolutionary expected extinction favored filters focal species forest Fox and Brown functional groups geographic gradient granivorous guild proportionality habitat immigration abilities increase insular distribution interactions interspecific competition invasion islands isolation Keddy Lincoln's sparrow Lomolino MacArthur mammals morphological Moulton nature nestedness Nevada test site niche null hypothesis null model number of species oak woodland observed Oecologia Oikos passeriforms patterns Pimm plant traits populations predator predictions processes quadrats random range rodents Saint Helena salmonid scales seed self-organization shrublands Simberloff similar simulation sparrow spatial species composition species pool species richness species-area stream fish successful tion trait-environment trajectory University Press variables warbler Weiher wetland Wilson