Ecological Assembly Rules : Perspectives, Advances, Retreats
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Review
'This book is a refreshing attempt to extend our knowledge into one important aspect of community-level processes: how ecological assemblages build up during ecological time.' Eric R. Pianke, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Book Description
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.
Ecological Assembly Rules : Perspectives, Advances, Retreats
Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, Advances, Retreats,Evan Weiher,Paul Keddy,Cambridge University Press,0521655331,Environmental Science,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems,Science,Science/Mathematics,Biotic communities,Ecological science, the Biosphere,Science / Biology
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