Edited by Herman A. Verhoef and Dr. Peter J. Morin
Community ecology is the study of the interactions between populations of co-existing species. This book provides a survey of the state-of-the-art in theory and applications of community ecology, with special attention to topology, dynamics, the importance of spatial and temporal scale, as well
as applications to emerging problems in human-dominated ecosystems (including the restoration and reconstruction of viable communities). It adopts a mainly theoretical approach and focuses on the use of network-based theory which remains little explored in standard community ecology textbooks. The
book includes discussion of the effects of biotic invasions on natural communities, the linking of ecological network structure to empirically measured community properties and dynamics, the effects of evolution on community patterns and processes, and the integration of fundamental interactions
into ecological networks. A final chapter indicates future research directions for the discipline. This book provides ideal graduate seminar course material.
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Shape and Structure
1. Owen L. Petchey, Peter J. Morin, and Han Olff: The Topology of Ecological Interaction Networks: The State of the Art
Part II: Dynamics
2. Herman A. Verhoef and Han Olff: Trophic Dynamics of Communities
3.
Ulrich Brose and Jennifer A. Dunne: Modeling the Dynamics of Complex Food Webs
4. Tadashi Fukami: Community Assembly Dynamics in Space
Part III: Space and Time
5. Jonathan M. Chase and Janne Bengtsson: Increasing Spatio-Temporal Scales: Metacommunity Ecology
6. Matty P. Berg:
Spatio-Temporal Structure in Soil Communities and Ecosystem Processes
Part IV: Applications
7. Wim H. van der Putten: Applications of Community Ecology Approaches in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Local Problems, Remote Causes
8. J. Emmett Duffy: Sea Changes: Structure and Functioning of
Emerging Marine Communities
9. Janne Bengtsson: Applied (Meta)community Ecology: Diversity and Ecosystem Services at the Intersection of Local and Regional Processes
10. Jan P. Bakker, Dries P.J. Kuijper, and Julia Stahl: Community Ecology and Management of Salt Marshes
Part V: Future
Directions
11. Jacintha Ellers: Evolutionary Processes in Community Ecology
12. Nicolas Loeuille and Michel Loreau: Emergence of Complex Food Web Structure in Community Evolution Models
13. David Kothamasi, E. Toby Kiers, and Marcel G.A. van der Heijden: Mutualisms and Community
Organization
14. Peter J. Morin: Emerging Frontiers of Community Ecology
References
Index
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Herman Verhoef obtained his PhD at the Faculty of Biology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. After having been involved in the ecophysiology of soil animals, he has turned his attention to Community Ecology. He is a Professor of Soil Ecology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, focussing on
soil-plant interactions and the relations between spatial heterogeneity and biodiversity. Peter Morin obtained his PhD in Zoology from Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. He is a Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
He is a community ecologist, and is interested in a number of topics, including biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, ecological networks, interactions between competition and predation, and microbial ecology.
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