Ecological Assembly Rules
Subtitle: Perspectives, Advances, Retreats
Contributors: Evan Weiher (Editor); Paul Keddy (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780521652353
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Biogeography; Ecology; Nature; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Biology; Biotic communities; Life Sciences - Ecology
First sentence: The idea that there were rules to govern how communities might be assembled was first explored by Jared Diamond (1979) in his treatise on 'assembly of species communities'.