From plant traits to vagetation structure : chance and selection in the assembly of ecological communities

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shipley, Bill , 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, uk : Cambridge University Press , c2010
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Playing with loaded dice
  • 2. Population-base models of community assembly
  • 3. Trait-based community ecology
  • 4. Modeling trait-based environmental filters: bayesian statistics, information theory and the maximum entropy formalism
  • 5. Community dynamics, natural selection and the origin of community-aggregated traits
  • 6. Community assembly during a Mediterranean succession
  • 7. The statistical mechanics of species abundance distributions
  • 8. Epilogue: traits are not enough