Community Ecology
, by Morin, Peter J.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781444338218 | 1444338218
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/22/2011
A thoroughly updated edition of Peter Morin's highly successful Community Ecology, this text incorporates new materials that reflect the recent advances in the dynamic field of community ecology.
Peter J. Morin is a leading experimental community ecologist. He is interested in many aspects of community ecology, including predator-prey interactions, food webs and the cause and consequences of biological diversity.
Preface to the Second Edition | p. ix |
Preface to the First Edition | p. x |
Communities: Basic Patterns and Elementary Processes | p. 1 |
Communities | p. 3 |
Overview | p. 3 |
Communities | p. 3 |
Communities and their members | p. 7 |
Community properties | p. 14 |
Interspecific interactions | p. 18 |
Community patterns as the inspiration for theory: alternate hypotheses and their critical evaluation | p. 19 |
Community patterns are a consequence of a hierarchy of interacting processes | p. 22 |
Conclusions | p. 23 |
Competition: Mechanisms, Models, and Niches | p. 24 |
Overview | p. 24 |
Interspecific competition | p. 24 |
Mechanisms of interspecific competition | p. 26 |
Descriptive models of competition | p. 27 |
Mechanistic models of competition | p. 33 |
Neighborhood models of competition among plants | p. 40 |
Competition, niches, and resource partitioning | p. 46 |
The many meanings of the niche | p. 46 |
Other ways of thinking about the niche | p. 50 |
Guild structure in niche space | p. 54 |
Conclusions | p. 55 |
Competition: Experiments, Observations, and Null Models | p. 58 |
Overview | p. 58 |
Experimental approaches to interspecific competition | p. 58 |
Experimental studies of interspecific competition | p. 62 |
Competition in marine communities | p. 62 |
Competition in terrestrial communities | p. 65 |
Competition in freshwater communities | p. 74 |
An overview of patterns found in surveys of published experiments on interspecific competition | p. 79 |
Null models and statistical/observational approaches to the study of interspecific competition | p. 85 |
Conclusions | p. 88 |
Predation and Communities: Empirical Patterns | p. 90 |
Overview | p. 90 |
Predation | p. 90 |
Examples from biological control | p. 91 |
Impacts of predators on different kinds of communities | p. 93 |
Examples of predation in marine communities | p. 93 |
Examples of predation in terrestrial communities | p. 97 |
Examples of predation in freshwater communities | p. 105 |
Inducible defenses | p. 110 |
When is predation likely to regulate prey population size and community structure? | p. 111 |
Overviews of general patterns based on reviews of experimental studies of predation | p. 116 |
Trade-offs between competitive ability and resistance to predation | p. 116 |
Conclusions | p. 119 |
Models of Predation in Simple Communities | p. 120 |
Overview | p. 120 |
Simple predator-prey models | p. 120 |
Models of predation on more than one prey | p. 128 |
Models of intraguild predation | p. 132 |
Models of infectious disease | p. 133 |
Conclusions | p. 135 |
Food Webs | p. 136 |
Overview | p. 136 |
Food-web attributes | p. 136 |
Patterns in collections of food webs | p. 144 |
Explanations for food-web patterns | p. 147 |
Other approaches to modeling food-web patterns | p. 153 |
Experimental tests of food-web theory | p. 155 |
Omnivory, increasing trophic complexity, and stability | p. 159 |
Interaction strength | p. 162 |
Some final qualifications about empirical patterns | p. 163 |
Conclusions | p. 165 |
Mutualisms | p. 166 |
Overview | p. 166 |
Kinds of mutualisms | p. 166 |
Direct and indirect mutualisms | p. 167 |
Simple models of mutualistic interactions | p. 167 |
Examples of obligate mutualisms | p. 171 |
Energetic and nutritional mutualisms | p. 174 |
Examples of facultative mutualisms and commensalisms | p. 179 |
Theories about the conditions leading to positive interactions among species | p. 181 |
Integrating positive interactions into ecological networks | p. 183 |
Conclusions: Consequences of mutualism and commensalism for community development | p. 186 |
Indirect Effects | p. 187 |
Overview | p. 187 |
Types of indirect effects | p. 187 |
Apparent competition | p. 190 |
Indirect mutualism and indirect commensalism | p. 194 |
Trophic cascades, tri-trophic interactions, and bottom-up effects | p. 196 |
Interaction modifications: Higher-order interactions, non-additive effects, and trait-mediated indirect effects | p. 201 |
Indirect effects can complicate the interpretation of manipulative community studies | p. 206 |
Conclusions: Factors contributing to the importance of indirect effects | p. 210 |
Factors Influencing Interactions Among Species | p. 213 |
Temporal Patterns: Seasonal Dynamics, Priority Effects, and Assembly Rules | p. 215 |
Overview | p. 215 |
The importance of history | p. 215 |
Interactions among temporally segregated species | p. 217 |
Consequences of phenological variation: case studies of priority effects | p. 224 |
Assembly rules | p. 229 |
Examples of assembly rules derived from theory | p. 229 |
Conclusions | p. 237 |
Habitat Selection | p. 238 |
Overview | p. 238 |
Features of habitat selection | p. 238 |
Correlations between organisms and habitat characteristics | p. 239 |
Cues and consequences | p. 241 |
A graphical theory of habitat selection | p. 247 |
Conclusions | p. 240 |
Spatial Dynamics | p. 251 |
Overview | p. 251 |
Spatial dynamics in open systems | p. 251 |
Metapopulations and metacommunities | p. 252 |
Interspecific interactions in patchy, subdivided habitats | p. 253 |
Competition in spatially complex habitats | p. 253 |
Predator-prey interactions in spatially complex habitats | p. 255 |
Habitat fragmentation and dispersal corridors affect diversity and movement among patches | p. 266 |
Recruitment-limited interactions - "supply-side ecology" | p. 269 |
Large-scale spatial patterns: island biogeography and macroecology | p. 271 |
Conclusions | p. 280 |
Large-Scale, Integrative Community Phenomena | p. 281 |
Causes and Consequences of Diversity | p. 283 |
Overview | p. 283 |
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium communities | p. 284 |
Experimental studies of community stability and alternate stable states | p. 290 |
Examples of stable community patterns | p. 292 |
Equilibrium explanations for diversity | p. 292 |
Situations where diversity may result from non-equilibrium dynamics | p. 294 |
Stability and complexity | p. 298 |
Productivity-diversity curves | p. 301 |
Effects of diversity on the variability of processes | p. 314 |
Effects of diversity on invasibility | p. 316 |
Conclusions | p. 318 |
Succession | p. 319 |
Overview | p. 319 |
Succession | p. 319 |
A brief history of succession | p. 321 |
Quantitative models of ecological succession | p. 325 |
Case studies of succession in different kinds of habitats | p. 331 |
Effects of plant succession on animal assemblages | p. 336 |
Succession in microbial assemblages | p. 337 |
Conclusions | p. 338 |
Applied Community Ecology | p. 340 |
Overview | p. 340 |
Anthropogenic changes and applied community ecology | p. 340 |
Epidemiology of animal borne diseases | p. 341 |
Restoration of community composition and function | p. 342 |
Biological control of invasive species | p. 343 |
Biomanipulation of water quality | p. 344 |
Management of multispecies fisheries | p. 344 |
Optimal design of nature preserves | p. 345 |
Predicting and managing responses to global environmental change | p. 345 |
Maximization of yield in mixed species agricultural and biofuel systems | p. 347 |
Assembly of viable communities in novel environments | p. 347 |
Conclusions | p. 348 |
Appendix: Stability Analysis | p. 349 |
References | p. 353 |
Index | p. 384 |
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