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Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. An Overview: Real and Apparent Patterns in Community Structure

Experimental Tests

2. Inferences and Experimental Results in Guild Structure

3. Exorcising the Ghost of Competition Past: Phytophagous Insects

4. The Role of Competition in Spider Communities: Insights from Field Experiments with a Model Organism

5. Does Competition Structure Communities? Field Studies on Neotropical Heliconia Insect Communities

Biogeographic Evidence on Communities

6. Non-competitive Populations, Non-convergent Communities,and Vacant Niches: The Herbivores of Bracken

7. Experimental Tests of Island Biogeographic Theory

8. An Experimental Approach to Understanding Pattern in Natural Communities

9. Biogeography, Colonization and Experimental Community Structure of Coral-Associated Crustaceans

10. Assembly of Land Bird Communities on Northern Islands: A Quantitative Analysis of Insular Impoverishment

Marine Community Paradigms

11. Paradigms, Explanations and Generalizations in Models for the Structure of Intertidal Communities on Rocky Shores

12. Processes Structuring Some Marine Communities: Are They General?

Morphology, Species Combinations, and Coexistence

13. Interspecific Competition Inferred from Patterns of Guild Structure

14. Properties of Coexisting Bird Species in Two Archipelagoes

15. Size Differences Among Sympatric, Bird-eating Hawks: A Worldwide Survey

16. Patterns and Processes in Three Guilds of Terrestrial Vertebrates

17. Are Species Co-occurrences on Islands Non-random, and Are Null Hypotheses Useful in Community Ecology?

18. Neutral Models of Species' Co-occurrence Patterns

19. Rejoinders

20. A Null Model for Null Models in Biogeography

21. The Mechanisms of Species Interactions and Community Organization in Fish

22. Patterns of Flowering Phenologies: Testability and Causal Inference Using a Random Model

Food Web Design

23. Food Chains and Return Times

24. Stability, Probability, and the Topology of Food Webs

Community Changes in Time and Space

25. On Understanding a Non-equilibrium World: Myth and Reality in Community Patterns and Processes

26. Interspecific Morphological Relationships and the Densities of Birds

27. The Structure of Communities of Fish on Coral Reefs and the Merit of a Hypothesis-testing, Manipulative Approach to Ecology

28. Density Compensation in Vertebrates and Invertebrates: A Review and an Experiment

29. Communities of Specialists: Vacant Niches in Ecological and Evolutionary Time

Literature Cited

Author Index

Taxonomic Index

Subject Index