18. Neutral Models of Species' Co-occurrence Patterns

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Introduction
5. 1. An Overview: Real and Apparent Patterns in Community Structure 3
6. Experimental Tests
7. 2. Inferences and Experimental Results in Guild Structure 19
8. 3. Exorcising the Ghost of Competition Past: Phytophagous Insects 28
9. 4. The Role of Competition in Spider Communities: Insights from Field Experiments with a Model Organism 42
10. 5. Does Competition Structure Communities? Field Studies on Neotropical Heliconia Insect Communities 54
11. Biogeographic Evidence on Communities
12. 6. Non-Competitive Populations, Non-Convergent Communities, and Vacant Niches: The Herbivores of Bracken 67
13. 7. Experimental Tests of Island Biogeographic Theory 101
14. 8. An Experimental Approach to Understanding Pattern in Natural Communities 113
15. 9. Biogeography, Colonization, and Experimental Community Structure of Coral-Associated Crustaceans 123
16. 10. Assembly of Land Bird Communities on Northern Islands: A Quantitative Analysis of Insular Impoverishment 138
17. 11. Paradigms, Explanations, and Generalizations in Models for the Structure of Intertidal Communities on Rocky Shores 151
18. 12. Processes Structuring Some Marine Communities: Are They General? 181
19. Morphology, Species Combinations, and Coexistence
20. 13. Interspecific Competition Inferred from Patterns of Guild Structure 201
21. 14. Properties of Coexisting Bird Species in Two Archipelagoes 234
22. 15. Size Differences Among Sympatric, Bird-Eating Hawks: A Worldwide Survey 254
23. 16. Patterns and Processes in Three Guilds of Terrestrial Vertebrates 282
24. 17. Are Species Co-occurrences on Islands Non-random, and Are Null Hypotheses Useful in Community Ecology? 297
25. 18. Neutral Models of Species' Co-occurrence Patterns 316
26. 19. REJOINDERS 332
27. 20. A Null Model for Null Models in Biogeography 344
28. 21. The Mechanisms of Species Interactions and Community Organization in Fish 360
29. 22. Patterns of Flowering Phenologies: Testability and Causal Inference Using a Random Model 383
30. Food Web Design
31. 23. Food Chains and Return Times 397
32. 24. Stability, Probability, and the Topology of Food Webs 413
33. Community Changes in Time and Space
34. 25. On Understanding a Non-Equilibrium World: Myth and Reality in Community Patterns and Processes 439
35. 26. Interspecific Morphological Relationships and the Densities of Birds 458
36. 27. The Structure of Communities of Fish on Coral Reefs and the Merit of a Hypothesis-Testing, Manipulative Approach to Ecology 478
37. 28. Density Compensation in Vertebrates and Invertebrates: A Review and an Experiment 491
38. 29. Communities of Specialists: Vacant Niches in Ecological and Evolutionary Time 510
39. Literature Cited 525
40. Author Index 585
41. Taxonomic Index 593
42. Subject Index 603
43. Backmatter 614