{"product_id":"the-theory-of-ecological-communities-9780691164847","title":"The Theory of Ecological Communities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In 1986, Thomas W. Schoener wrote a thought-provoking book chapter describing ecological communities along five organismal and five environmental axes. It was thought-provoking in the sense that Schoener attempted to unify community ecology using a minimal set of variables at a time when ecologists were doubtful of any unifying principle in community ecology. After three decades of Schoener's chapter, community ecologists are still divided about whether there could be a general theory of community... Mark Vellend elegantly attempts to bridge this divide by introducing the theory of high-level processes in ecological communities in his Princeton Population Monograph entitled The Theory of Ecological Communities.\"--Madhav P. Thakur, Trends in Ecology and Evolution \"Vellend (biology, Univ. de Sherbrooke, Canada) provides a useful historical account of the wide variety of methods used in the field to lay the foundation for his proposed resolution of the resulting 'mess.' The book is well written, profusely referenced, and a worthy addition to the distinguished 'Monographs in Population Biology' series from Princeton University Press.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii  1. Introduction 1  PART I APPROACHES, IDEAS, AND THEORIES IN COMMUNITY ECOLOGY  2. How Ecologists Study Communities 9  3. A Brief History of Ideas in Community Ecology 20  PART II THE THEORY OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES  4. The Pursuit of Generality in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 39  5. High-Level Processes in Ecological Communities 49  6. Simulating Dynamics in Ecological Communities 69  PART III EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE  7. The Nature of Empirical Evidence 93  8. Empirical Evidence: Selection 107  9. Empirical Evidence: Ecological Drift and Dispersal 138  10. Empirical Evidence: Speciation and Species Pools 158  PART IV CONCLUSIONS, REFLECTIONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS  11. From Process to Pattern and Back Again 175  12. The Future of Community Ecology 182  References 193  Index 225","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865531625815,"sku":"9780691164847","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691164847.jpg?v=1722274421","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-theory-of-ecological-communities-9780691164847","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}