Table of Contents

Part I: Communities: Basic Patterns and Elementary Processes:. Communities. Competition: Mechanisms, Models and Niches. Competition: Experiments, Observations and Null Models. Predation and Communities. Empirical Patterns. Models of predation in simple communities. Food Webs. Mutualisms. Indirect Effects. Part II: Factors Influencing Interactions Among Species:. Temporal Patterns: Seasonal Dyanmics, Priority Effects, and Assembly Rules. Habitat Selection. Spatial Dynamics, Recruitment-Limited Patterns, and Island Biogeography. Part III: Large Scale, Integrative, Community Phenomena:. Causes and Consequences of Diversity. Succession. Applied Community Ecology. Appendix. Bibliography. Index