From plant traits to vagetation structure : chance and selection in the assembly of ecological communities
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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