I'd suggest that before folks get too excited about challenges to "our ideas regarding community assembly", they reread Gleason (1926), Whittaker (1975) and Hubbell (2001), amongst others. Also isolated islands with depauperate faunas and floras may not be the best models for general ecological theory, although they have done pretty well for evolution.
David Duffy On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Richard Boyce <boy...@nku.edu> wrote: > Here's a *very* interesting story on the human-assembled ecosystems of > Ascension Island in the tropical South Atlantic: > http://e360.yale.edu/feature/on_a_remote_island_lessons__in_how_ecosystems_function/2683/ > > I suspect that further research here may challenge our ideas regarding > community assembly. > > ================================ > Richard L. Boyce, Ph.D. > Director, Environmental Science Program > Professor > Department of Biological Sciences, SC 150 > Northern Kentucky University > Nunn Drive > Highland Heights, KY 41099 USA > > 859-572-1407 (tel.) > 859-572-5639 (fax) > boy...@nku.edu<mailto:boy...@nku.edu> > http://www.nku.edu/~boycer/ > ================================= > > "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly > making exciting discoveries." - A.A. Milne > -- Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit Botany University of Hawaii 3190 Maile Way Honolulu Hawaii 96822 USA 1-808-956-8218
