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 …

A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community
ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological …

Ecologists have long been interested in the differences that exist among communities. If
species adapted rapidly and without constraint, and if any lineage could occur in any …

Ecologists often view community assembly as a process involving the dispersal of species
from a static regional species pool followed by environmental filtering to establish the local …

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: 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 …

The rapid expansion of human activities is causing unprecedented changes in the structure,
dynamics, and diversity of the earth's ecosystems (eg, Ehrlich and Ehrlich 1981; Wilson …

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

A synthesis between community ecology and evolutionary biology is emerging that identifies
how genetic variation and evolution within one species can shape the ecological properties …

The fields of ecology and evolution are frequently criticized for teleological arguments and
inexact language (Popper 1974; Peters 1976; Thorpe 1986; Mills et al. 1993; Frazier 1994) …