Ecological Communities: Conceptual Issues and the Evidence

Published by Princeton University Press 1984

Ecological Communities

Conceptual Issues and the Evidence

Edited by: Donald R. Strong , Daniel Simberloff , Lawrence G. Abele and Anne B. Thistle

Volume 613 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400857081

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction
1. An Overview: Real and Apparent Patterns in Community Structure Robert M. May Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Experimental Tests
2. Inferences and Experimental Results in Guild Structure Nelson G. Hairston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. Exorcising the Ghost of Competition Past: Phytophagous Insects Donald R. Strong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
4. The Role of Competition in Spider Communities: Insights from Field Experiments with a Model Organism David H. Wise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
5. Does Competition Structure Communities? Field Studies on Neotropical Heliconia Insect Communities Richard P. Seifert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Biogeographic Evidence on Communities
6. Non-Competitive Populations, Non-Convergent Communities, and Vacant Niches: The Herbivores of Bracken John H. Lawton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
7. Experimental Tests of Island Biogeographic Theory Jorge R. Rey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
8. An Experimental Approach to Understanding Pattern in Natural Communities Henry M. Wilbur and Joseph Travis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
9. Biogeography, Colonization, and Experimental Community Structure of Coral-Associated Crustaceans Lawrence G. Abele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
10. Assembly of Land Bird Communities on Northern Islands: A Quantitative Analysis of Insular Impoverishment Olli Jarvinen and Yrjö Haila Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
11. Paradigms, Explanations, and Generalizations in Models for the Structure of Intertidal Communities on Rocky Shores A. J. Underwood and E. J. Denley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
12. Processes Structuring Some Marine Communities: Are They General? Paul K. Dayton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Morphology, Species Combinations, and Coexistence
13. Interspecific Competition Inferred from Patterns of Guild Structure Peter Grant and Dolph Schluter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
14. Properties of Coexisting Bird Species in Two Archipelagoes Daniel Simberloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
15. Size Differences Among Sympatric, Bird-Eating Hawks: A Worldwide Survey Thomas W. Schoener Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
16. Patterns and Processes in Three Guilds of Terrestrial Vertebrates James H. Brown and Michael A. Bowers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
17. Are Species Co-occurrences on Islands Non-random, and Are Null Hypotheses Useful in Community Ecology? Michael E. Gilpin and Jared M. Diamond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
18. Neutral Models of Species' Co-occurrence Patterns Edward F. Connor and Daniel Simberloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
19. REJOINDERS Michael E. Gilpin, Jared M. Diamond, Edward F. Connor and Daniel Simberloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
20. A Null Model for Null Models in Biogeography Robert K. Colwell and David W. Winkler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
21. The Mechanisms of Species Interactions and Community Organization in Fish Earl E. Werner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
22. Patterns of Flowering Phenologies: Testability and Causal Inference Using a Random Model Beverly J. Rathcke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Food Web Design
23. Food Chains and Return Times Stuart L. Pimm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
24. Stability, Probability, and the Topology of Food Webs Michael J. Auerbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Community Changes in Time and Space
25. On Understanding a Non-Equilibrium World: Myth and Reality in Community Patterns and Processes John A. Wiens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
26. Interspecific Morphological Relationships and the Densities of Birds Frances C. James and William J. Boecklen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	458
27. The Structure of Communities of Fish on Coral Reefs and the Merit of a Hypothesis-Testing, Manipulative Approach to Ecology Peter F. Sale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	478
28. Density Compensation in Vertebrates and Invertebrates: A Review and an Experiment STANLEY H. FAETH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
29. Communities of Specialists: Vacant Niches in Ecological and Evolutionary Time PETER W. PRICE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	510
Literature Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
Author Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	585
Taxonomic Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	593
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	603
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	614

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