Perspective
Communities as assembled structures: Do rules govern pattern?

https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-5347(90)90223-ZGet rights and content

Abstract

Because of its unwieldy complexity, understanding organization at the community level has been an elusive, often frustrating enterprise. This survey concentrates on the assembly process itself, and examines whether there are mechanics to community assembly that provide the foundation for a general theory of organization at the community level.

References (52)

  • D. Simberloff
  • P. Chesson

    Theor. Popul. Biol.

    (1985)
  • F.E. Clements

    Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation

    (1916)
  • H.A. Gleason

    Bull. Torrey Bot. Club

    (1926)
  • S.A. Forbes

    Ill. Nat. Hist. Surv.

    (1880)
  • L. Camerano

    Atti. Accad. Torino

    (1880)
  • R. Lindemann

    Ecology

    (1942)
  • P.R. Grant et al.

    Evolution

    (1980)
  • E.F. Connor et al.

    Ecology

    (1979)
  • H.G. Andrewartha et al.

    The Distribution and Abundance of Animals

    (1954)
  • M.L. Cody et al.

    Ecology and Evolution of Communities

    (1975)
  • T.F.H. Allen et al.

    Hierarchy

    (1982)
  • R.N. O'Neill et al.

    A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems

    (1986)
  • R.T. Paine
  • T.W. Schoener
  • P. Yodzis

    Nature

    (1980)
  • G.E. Hutchinson

    An Introduction to Population Ecology

    (1978)
  • I.A. Wiens

    Am. Sci.

    (1977)
  • S.L. Pimm et al.

    Nature

    (1988)
  • M.E. Gilpin et al.
  • E.F. Connor et al.
  • Drake, I.A. Am. Nat. (in...
  • J.V. Robinson et al.

    Ecology

    (1987)
  • Cited by (0)

    View full text