Community ecology: the study of the patterns and processes involving two or more species-
has developed rapidly in the last two decades, driven by new and more sophisticated …

Because of the contingency and complexity of its subject matter, community ecology has few
general laws. Laws and models in community ecology are highly contingent, and their …

In recent times, the science of ecology has been rejuvenated and has moved to a central
position in biology. This volume contains eighteen original, major contributions by leaders in …

Community ecology is often perceived as a mess, given the seemingly vast number of
processes that can underlie the many patterns of interest, and the apparent uniqueness of …

The central question of community ecology was posed decades ago: Do the populations at a
site consist of all those that happened to arrive there, or of only a special subset—those with …

Community ecology is the study of the interactions between populations of co-existing
species. This book provides a survey of the state-of-the-art in theory and applications of …

Mechanistic approaches to community ecology are those which employ individual—
ecological concepts—those of behavioral ecology, physiological ecology, and …

A definitive guide to the depth and breadth of the ecological sciences, revised and updated
The revised and updated fifth edition of Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems–now in full …

Community ecology is an inherently complicated field, confounded by the conflicting use of
fundamental terms. Nearly two decades ago, Fauth et al.(1996) demonstrated that imprecise …

A primary goal of ecology is to measure, understand, and predict patterns of biodiversity,
including the numbers of kinds of organisms and their genetic and phenotypic or functional …