Community EcologyJared M. Diamond, Ted J. Case A pluralistic approach to community ecology. |
Contents
Laboratory Experiments Field Experiments and Natural | 3 |
Multispecies Competition | 23 |
The Desert Granivore System | 41 |
SECTION TWO Species Introductions and Extinctions | 63 |
The Extent of Competition in Shaping an Introduced Avifauna | 80 |
Evolution of Ecological Segregation in the New Guinea Montane Avifauna | 98 |
Patterns of Change in Plant Communities Through Geological Times | 126 |
The Importance of Spatial and Temporal Scale in Ecological | 145 |
Biology Chance and History and the Structure of Tropical Rain Forest Tree | 314 |
The Role of Species Interactions in Community Ecology | 333 |
The Importance | 359 |
Structural Niches in Plant Communities | 381 |
Lessons from Hummingbird Flower | 406 |
On the Population Consequences of Mutualism | 425 |
Communities of Species with Parasitic Lifestyles | 445 |
Kinds of Ecological CommunitiesEcology Becomes Pluralistic | 467 |
Interspecific Competition in Fluctuating Environments | 173 |
Consequences for Communities | 192 |
Problems Posed by Sparse and Patchily Distributed Species in SpeciesRich Plant | 207 |
SECTION FOUR Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Communities | 227 |
Environmental Variation and the Coexistence of Species | 240 |
Abiding the Variance in the Demography of Real | 257 |
Response of Mammalian Communities to Environmental Changes During the Late | 300 |
Competition Mortality and Community Structure | 480 |
Competition and Community Organization on Hard Surfaces in the Sea | 517 |
Early Colonization | 537 |
Do Systematic | 556 |
References | 587 |
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