Ecological Assembly Rules

Introduction Paul A. Keddy and Evan Weiher; Part I. The Search for Meaningful Patterns in Species Assemblages: 1. The genesis and development of guild assembly rules Barry J. Fox; 2. Ruling out a community assembly rule: the method of favored states Daniel Simberloff, Lewi Stone and Tamar Dayan; 3. Community structure and assembly rules: confronting conceptual and statistical issues with data on desert rodents Douglas A. Kelt and James H. Brown; 4. Introduced avifaunas as natural experiments in community assembly Julie L. Lockwood, Michael Moulton and Karla L. Balent; 5. Assembly rules in plant communities J. Bastow Wilson; 6. Assembly rules at different scales in plant and bird communities Martin L. Cody; 7. Impact of language, history and choice of system on the study of assembly rules Barbara D. Booth and Douglas W. Larson; Part II. Other Perspectives on Community Assembly: 8. On the nature of the assembly trajectory James A. Drake, Craig R. Zimmerman, Tom Purucker and Carmen Rojo; 9. Assembly rules as general constraints on community composition Evan Weiher and Paul A. Keddy; 10. A species-based, hierarchical model of island biogeography Mark V. Lomolino; 11. Interaction of physical and biological processes in the assembly of stream fish communities Elizabeth M. Strange and Theodore C. Foin; 12. Functional implications of trait-environment linkages in plant communities Sandra Diaz, Marcelo Cabido and Fernandez Casanoves; 13. When does restoration succeed? Julie L. Lockwood and Stuart L. Pimm; 14. Assessing the state of the assembly rules Paul Keddy; Index.