Ecological Communities
Conceptual Issues and the Evidence
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 2014
630 pages
978-1-4008-5708-1 (ISBN)
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This work is the first to focus systematically on a much-debated topic: the conceptual issues of community ecology, including the nature of evidence in ecology, the role of experiments, attempts to disprove hypotheses, and the value of negative evidence in the discipline.
Originally published in 1984.
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Originally published in 1984.
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Edited by Donald R. Strong, Jr., Daniel Simberloff, Lawrence G. Abele, & Anne B. Thistle
Content
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
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
