Ecological assembly rules perspectives, advances, retreats (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: The scope and goals of research on assembly rules / Paul Keddy, Evan Weiher -- The genesis and development of guild assembly rules / Barry J. Fox -- Ruling out a community assembly rule: the method of favored states / Daniel Simberloff, Lewi Stone, Tamar Dayan -- Community structure and assembly rules: confronting conceptual and statistical issues with data on desert rodents / Douglas A. Kelt, James H. Brown -- Introduced avifaunas as natural experiments in community assembly / Julie L. Lockwood, Michael P. Moulton, Karla L. Balent -- Assembly rules in plant communities / J. Bastow Wilson -- Assembly rules at different scales in plant and bird communities / Martin L. Cody -- Impact of language, history and choice of system on the study of assembly rules / Barbara D. Booth, Douglas W. Larson -- On the nature of the assembly trajectory / James A. Drake, Craig R. Zimmerman, Tom Purucker [and others] -- Assembly rules as general constraints on community composition / Evan Weiher, Paul Keddy -- A species-based, hierarchical model of island biogeography / Mark V. Lomolino -- Interaction of physical and biological processes in the assembly of stream fish communities / Elizabeth M. Strange, Theodore C. Foin -- Functional implications of trait-environment linkages in plant communities / Sandra Dʹiaz, Marcelo Cabido, Fernando Casanoves -- When does restoration succeed? / Julie L. Lockwood, Stuart L. Pimm -- Epilogue: From global exploration to community assembly / Paul Keddy
It is over twenty years since Jared Diamond focused attention on the possible existence of assembly rules for ecological communities. This volume provides a current status examination of the existence and nature of assembly rules, using both theoretical and empirical approaches in a variety of systems