Ecological Communities

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*1. An Overview: Real and Apparent Patterns in Community Structure, pg. 3*2. Inferences and Experimental Results in Guild Structure, pg. 19*3. Exorcising the Ghost of Competition Past: Phytophagous Insects, pg. 28*4. The Role of Competition in Spider Communities: Insights from Field Experiments with a Model Organism, pg. 42*5. Does Competition Structure Communities? Field Studies on Neotropical Heliconia Insect Communities, pg. 54*6. Non-Competitive Populations, Non-Convergent Communities, and Vacant Niches: The Herbivores of Bracken, pg. 67*7. Experimental Tests of Island Biogeographic Theory, pg. 101*8. An Experimental Approach to Understanding Pattern in Natural Communities, pg. 113*9. Biogeography, Colonization, and Experimental Community Structure of Coral-Associated Crustaceans, pg. 123*10. Assembly of Land Bird Communities on Northern Islands: A Quantitative Analysis of Insular Impoverishment, pg. 138*11. Paradigms, Explanations, and Generalizations in Models for the Structure of Intertidal Communities on Rocky Shores, pg. 151*12. Processes Structuring Some Marine Communities: Are They General?, pg. 181*13. Interspecific Competition Inferred from Patterns of Guild Structure, pg. 201*14. Properties of Coexisting Bird Species in Two Archipelagoes, pg. 234*15. Size Differences Among Sympatric, Bird-Eating Hawks: A Worldwide Survey, pg. 254*16. Patterns and Processes in Three Guilds of Terrestrial Vertebrates, pg. 282*17. Are Species Co-occurrences on Islands Non-random, and Are Null Hypotheses Useful in Community Ecology?, pg. 297*18. Neutral Models of Species' Co-occurrence Patterns, pg. 316*19. REJOINDERS, pg. 332*20. A Null Model for Null Models in Biogeography, pg. 344*21. The Mechanisms of Species Interactions and Community Organization in Fish, pg. 360*22. Patterns of Flowering Phenologies: Testability and Causal Inference Using a Random Model, pg. 383*23. Food Chains and Return Times, pg. 397*24. Stability, Probability, and the Topology of Food Webs, pg. 413*25. On Understanding a Non-Equilibrium World: Myth and Reality in Community Patterns and Processes, pg. 439*26. Interspecific Morphological Relationships and the Densities of Birds, pg. 458*27. The Structure of Communities of Fish on Coral Reefs and the Merit of a Hypothesis-Testing, Manipulative Approach to Ecology, pg. 478*28. Density Compensation in Vertebrates and Invertebrates: A Review and an Experiment, pg. 491*29. Communities of Specialists: Vacant Niches in Ecological and Evolutionary Time, pg. 510*Literature Cited, pg. 525*Author Index, pg. 585*Taxonomic Index, pg. 593*Subject Index, pg. 603