Ecological Assembly Rules - Perspectives, Advances, Retreats (Paperback, Revised)

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 rigor 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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	1999
Editors:	Evan Weiher • Paul Keddy
Dimensions:	228 x 154 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	432
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-65533-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
LSN:	0-521-65533-1
Barcode:	9780521655330

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