Ecological assembly rules : perspectives, advances, retreats /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 418 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129881 |
| Summary: | It is over twenty years since Jared Diamond focused attention on the possible existence of assembly rules for communities. Since then there has been a proliferation of studies trying to promote, refute or test the idea that there are sets of constraints (rules) on community formation and maintenance (assembly). This timely volume brings together carefully selected contributions which examine the question of the existence and nature of assembly rules with some rigour and in some detail, using both theoretical and empirical approaches in a variety of systems. The result is a balanced treatment which encompasses a wide range of topics within ecology including competition and coexistence, conservation and biodiversity, niche theory, and biogeography. As such it provides much to interest a broad audience of ecologists, while also making an important contribution to the study of community ecology in particular. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 418 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511040490 9780511040498 0511153910 9780511153914 051104822X 9780511048227 0511174225 9780511174223 9780521652353 0521652359 0511542232 9780511542237 1280420650 9781280420658 9786610420650 6610420653 051132815X 9780511328152 1107117380 9781107117389 9780521655330 0521655331 |