Covers many of the mainstays of community analysis including: diversity, similarity and cluster analysis, ordination and multivariate analyses. Aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers seeking a step-by-step methodology for analysing plant and animal communities using R and Excel.
This is an up-to-date study of patterns and processes involving two or more species. The book strikes a balance between plant and animal species and among studies of marine, freshwater and terrestrial communities.
Each mathematical section has been carefully structured and fully explained in biological terms. Community Ecology presents a refreshingly readable course text for advanced undergraduates in ecology."--BOOK JACKET.
Offers a unifying framework for community ecology by addressing how communities are assembled from species pools.
This book presents the proceedings of a workshop on community ecology organized at Davis, in April, 1986, sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. There have been several recent symposia on community...
A strength of Concepts of Biology is that instructors can customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom.
Evolutionary Community Ecology makes a valuable and timely step toward this end. Crafting a synthetic understanding of ecological communities, this book is full of insights and excellent examples.
These are analogues of the four central processes in population genetics theory—selection within species, drift, gene flow, and mutation—and together they subsume almost all of the many dozens of more specific models built to describe ...
Wishart , D. & Leach , S. V. ( 1970 ) . A multivariate analysis of Platonic prose rhythm . Computer Studies in the Humanities and Verbal Behavior , 3 , 909 . Wolff , J. D. ( 1980 ) . The role of habitat patchiness in the population ...
A pluralistic approach to community ecology.
What factors control species coexistence? Are there common patterns of species abundance and distribution across broad geographic scales? What is the role of trophic interactions in these complex ecosystems?