Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, Advances, Retreats
Evan Weiher and Paul Keddy, editors
(1999) Cambridge University Press
Table of Contents:
| Introduction: The scope and goals of research on assembly rules Paul Keddy and Evan Weiher |
1 |
| 1. The genesis and development guild assembly rules Barry J. Fox |
23 |
| 2. Ruling out a community assembly rule: the method of favored states Daniel Simberloff, Lewi Stone, and Tamar Dayan |
58 |
| 3. Community structure and assembly rules: confronting conceptual and
statistical issues with data on desert rodents Douglas A. Kelt and James H. Brown |
75 |
| 4. Introduced avifaunas as natural experiments in community assembly Julie L. Lockwood, Michael P. Moulton, and Karla L. Balent |
108 |
| 5. Assembly rules in plant communities J. Bastow Wilson |
130 |
| 6. Assembly rules at different scales in plant and bird communities Martin L. Cody |
165 |
| 7. Impact of language, history, and choice of system on the study of
assembly rules Barbara D. Booth and Douglas W. Larson |
206 |
| 8. On the nature of the assembly trajectory James A. Drake, Craig R. Zimmerman, Tom Purucker, and Carmen Rojo |
233 |
| 9. Assembly rules as general constraints on community composition Evan Weiher and Paul Keddy |
251 |
| 10. A species-based, hierarchical model of island biogeography Mark V. Lomolino |
272 |
| 11. Interaction of physical and biological processes in teh assembly of
stream fish communities Elizabeth M. Strange and Theodore C. Foin |
311 |
| 12. Functional implications of trait-environment linkages in plant
communities Sandra Diaz, Marcello Cabido, and Fernando Casonoves |
338 |
| 13. When does restoration succeed? Julie L. Lockwood and Stuart L. Pimm |
363 |
| 14. Epilogue: From global exploration to community assembly Paul Keddy |
393 |
| Evan Weiher |
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