Ecological Communities: Conceptual Issues and the Evidence

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Ecological Communities

Conceptual Issues and the Evidence

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1984

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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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Preface
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Contents
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Introduction
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1. An Overview: Real and Apparent Patterns in Community Structure
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Robert M. May

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Experimental Tests
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2. Inferences and Experimental Results in Guild Structure
19
Nelson G. Hairston

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3. Exorcising the Ghost of Competition Past: Phytophagous Insects
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Donald R. Strong

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4. The Role of Competition in Spider Communities: Insights from Field Experiments with a Model Organism
42
David H. Wise

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5. Does Competition Structure Communities? Field Studies on Neotropical Heliconia Insect Communities
54
Richard P. Seifert

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Biogeographic Evidence on Communities
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6. Non-Competitive Populations, Non-Convergent Communities, and Vacant Niches: The Herbivores of Bracken
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John H. Lawton

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7. Experimental Tests of Island Biogeographic Theory
101
Jorge R. Rey

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8. An Experimental Approach to Understanding Pattern in Natural Communities
113
Henry M. Wilbur and Joseph Travis

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9. Biogeography, Colonization, and Experimental Community Structure of Coral-Associated Crustaceans
123
Lawrence G. Abele

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10. Assembly of Land Bird Communities on Northern Islands: A Quantitative Analysis of Insular Impoverishment
138
Olli Jarvinen and Yrjö Haila

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11. Paradigms, Explanations, and Generalizations in Models for the Structure of Intertidal Communities on Rocky Shores
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A. J. Underwood and E. J. Denley

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12. Processes Structuring Some Marine Communities: Are They General?
181
Paul K. Dayton

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Morphology, Species Combinations, and Coexistence
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13. Interspecific Competition Inferred from Patterns of Guild Structure
201
Peter Grant and Dolph Schluter

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14. Properties of Coexisting Bird Species in Two Archipelagoes
234
Daniel Simberloff

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15. Size Differences Among Sympatric, Bird-Eating Hawks: A Worldwide Survey
254
Thomas W. Schoener

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16. Patterns and Processes in Three Guilds of Terrestrial Vertebrates
282
James H. Brown and Michael A. Bowers

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17. Are Species Co-occurrences on Islands Non-random, and Are Null Hypotheses Useful in Community Ecology?
297
Michael E. Gilpin and Jared M. Diamond

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18. Neutral Models of Species' Co-occurrence Patterns
316
Edward F. Connor and Daniel Simberloff

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19. REJOINDERS
332
Michael E. Gilpin, Jared M. Diamond, Edward F. Connor and Daniel Simberloff

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20. A Null Model for Null Models in Biogeography
344
Robert K. Colwell and David W. Winkler

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21. The Mechanisms of Species Interactions and Community Organization in Fish
360
Earl E. Werner

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22. Patterns of Flowering Phenologies: Testability and Causal Inference Using a Random Model
383
Beverly J. Rathcke

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Food Web Design
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23. Food Chains and Return Times
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Stuart L. Pimm

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24. Stability, Probability, and the Topology of Food Webs
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Michael J. Auerbach

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Community Changes in Time and Space
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25. On Understanding a Non-Equilibrium World: Myth and Reality in Community Patterns and Processes
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John A. Wiens

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26. Interspecific Morphological Relationships and the Densities of Birds
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Frances C. James and William J. Boecklen

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27. The Structure of Communities of Fish on Coral Reefs and the Merit of a Hypothesis-Testing, Manipulative Approach to Ecology
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Peter F. Sale

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28. Density Compensation in Vertebrates and Invertebrates: A Review and an Experiment
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STANLEY H. FAETH

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29. Communities of Specialists: Vacant Niches in Ecological and Evolutionary Time
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PETER W. PRICE

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Literature Cited
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Author Index
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Taxonomic Index
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Subject Index
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Backmatter
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Keywords for this book

Predation; Insect; Interspecific competition; Null hypothesis; Probability; Prediction; Biological interaction; Heliconia; Trophic level; Community structure; Ecology; Larva; Herbivore; Character displacement; Chthamalus; Parasitism; Foraging; Field experiment; Competition; Intraspecific competition; Taxon; Sympatry; Invertebrate; Natural experiment; Bluegill; Food chain; Bract; Assembly rules; Common species; Randomness; Species richness; Allopatric speciation; Vegetation; Vertebrate; Organism; Observational study; Vacant niche; Rare species; Reproductive isolation; Inference; Crustacean; Keystone species; Endemism; Urchin barren; Nutrient; Speciation; Rarefaction (ecology); Lotka–Volterra equations; Structuring; Anecdotal evidence; Ecotype; Balance of nature; Barnacle; Shrub; Carolina chickadee; Apex predator; Small population size; Sexual dimorphism; Rodent; Phenology; Local extinction; Statistical significance; Egg; Fauna; Model organism; Hippoboscidae; Obligate; Founder effect; Directional selection; Population size

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

Princeton University Press

Ecological Communities

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

1. An Overview: Real and Apparent Patterns in Community Structure

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

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?

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

23. Food Chains and Return Times

24. Stability, Probability, and the Topology of Food Webs

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

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