Ecological Communities : : Conceptual Issues and the Evidence / / ed. by Donald R. Strong, Anne B. Thistle, Lawrence G. Abele, Daniel Simberloff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Abele, Lawrence G.,; Auerbach, Michael J.,; Boecklen, William J.,; Bowers, Michael A.,; Brown, James H.,; Colwell, Robert K.,; Connor, Edward F.,; Dayton, Paul K.,; Denley, E. J.,; Diamond, Jared M.,; FAETH, STANLEY H.,; Gilpin, Michael E.,; Grant, Peter,; Haila, Yrjö,; Hairston, Nelson G.,; James, Frances C.,; Jarvinen, Olli,; Lawton, John H.,; May, Robert M.,; PRICE, PETER W.,; Pimm, Stuart L.,; Rathcke, Beverly J.,; Rey, Jorge R.,; Sale, Peter F.,; Schluter, Dolph,; Schoener, Thomas W.,; Seifert, Richard P.,; Simberloff, Daniel,; Strong, Donald R.,; Travis, Joseph,; Underwood, A. J.,; Werner, Earl E.,; Wiens, John A.,; Wilbur, Henry M.,; Winkler, David W.,; Wise, David H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Abele, Lawrence G.,; Simberloff, Daniel,; Strong, Donald R.,; Thistle, Anne B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 613
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (630 p.)

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

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