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      • Edited by Evan Weiher, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Paul Keddy, Southeastern Louisiana University
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 September 2009
      17 June 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511542237
      9780521652353
      9780521655330
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511542237
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.857kg, 430 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.743kg, 432 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Ecology and Conservation
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    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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    ‘This book is a refreshing attempt to extend our knowledge into one important aspect of community-level processes: how ecological assemblages build up during ecological time.’

    Eric R. Pianke Source: Trends in Ecology and Evolution

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