For various reasons, ethologists have paid relatively little attention to the ecological
implications of their data and theories. Similarly, ecologists have incorporated few of the …

The central question of community ecology was posed decades ago: Do the populations at a
site consist of all those that happened to arrive there, or of only a special subset—those with …

The purpose of this chapter is threefold:(1) to provide a general overview of the relations
between theoretical and empirical ecology at the community level;(2) to reflect the tenor of …

Mechanistic approaches to community ecology are those which employ individual—
ecological concepts—those of behavioral ecology, physiological ecology, and …

There is a long tradition in ecology of trying to understand community assembly processes
by making inferences from patterns of community structure (Diamond 1975; Connor & …

Community ecology is often perceived as a mess, given the seemingly vast number of
processes that can underlie the many patterns of interest, and the apparent uniqueness of …

Over the past 10 years or so, there has been an increasing awareness among com-munity
ecologists that the dynamical behavior of assemblies of plants and animals is likely to be …

" Two noticeable characteristics of papers recently published are the widespread interest in
field quantitative methods in the study of population density, rates of spread, fluctuation …

Two main themes have dominated empirical research in community ecology for the last
several decades. On the one hand, the enormously successful experiments of British plant …

The study of habitat selection and population interactions has a history about as long as any
integrative topic in ecology. Its literature is classically scientific in the sense that it combines …