Greetings: I had written a bit ago requesting references dealing with community=20 assembly rules. Because of some interest among ecolog-L participants, I=20 have compiled them below. Thank you to all who offered=20 references. (Please note the citations have not been edited.)
Cheers, Phil Names: David Ackerly =96 UCBerkeley Jim Brown - U New Mexico Jeanine Cavender-Bares - UMinnesota James Drake Brian Enquist - UArizona Phil Grime Steve Jackson =96 Uwyoming Paul Keddy Resource Ecology Group= (<http://www.reg.wur.nl/UK/>http://www.reg.wur.nl/UK/) Dave Tilman =96 Uminnesota Evan Weiher Papers: Belyea, L. R. and J. Lancaster (1999). Assembly rules within a contingent=20 ecology. Oikos 86: 402-416. Brown, J. H., B. J. Fox, et al. (2000). Assembly rules: Desert rodent=20 communities are structured at scales from local to continental. American=20 Naturalist 156: 314-321. Brown, J. H., D. A. Kelt, et al. (2002). Assembly rules and competition in= =20 desert rodents. American Naturalist 160(6): 815-818. Davis et al. 2005. Invasibility: the local mechanism driving community=20 assembly and species diversity. Ecography 28:696-704. Ehmann, W.J. and J.A. MacMahon. (1996) Initial tests for priority effects=20 among spiders that co-occur on sagebrush shrubs. Journal of Arachnology=20 24:173-185. Fargione et al. (2003) Community assembly and invasion: an experimental=20 test of neutral versus niche processes. Proc. Natl. Academy Sciences 100:=20 8916-8920. Fleming, T. H. (2005). The relationship between species richness of=20 vertebrate mutualists and their food plants in tropical and subtropical=20 communities differs among hemispheres." Oikos 111(3): 556-562. Fukami, T. (2004). Assembly history interacts with ecosystem size to=20 influence species diversity. Ecology 85(12): 3234-3242. Gotelli, N. J., N. J. Buckley, et al. (1997). Co-occurrence of Australian=20 land birds: Diamond's assembly rules revisted. Oikos 80: 311-324. Gotelli, N. J. and D. J. McCabe (2002). Species co-occurrence: A=20 meta-analysis of J. M. Diamond's assembly rules model. Ecology 83(8):=20 2091-2096. Gotelli, N. J. and A. M. Ellison (2002). Assembly rules for new England ant= =20 assemblages. Oikos 99(3): 591-599. Granado-Lorencio, C., C. Lima, et al. (2005). Abundance - distribution=20 relationships in fish assembly of the Amazonas floodplain lakes. Ecography= =20 28(4): 515-520. Hraber, P. T. and B. T. Milne (1997). Community assembly in a model=20 ecosystem. Ecological Modelling 103: 267-285. Hubbell, S. P. (1997). A unified theory of biogeography and relative=20 species abundance and its application to tropical rain forests and coral=20 reefs. Coral Reefs 16: S9-S21. Kelt, D. A., M. L. Taper, et al. (1995). Assessing the impact of=20 competition on community assembly: A case study using small mammals.=20 Ecology 76: 1283-1296. Kelt, D. A. (1997). Assembly of local communities: consequences of an=20 optimal body size for the organization of competitively structured=20 communities. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 62: 15-37. Kinzig, A. P., S. A. Levin, et al. (1999). Limiting similarity, species=20 packing, and system stability for hierarchical competition-colonization=20 models. American Naturalist 153: 371-383. Law, R., Morton, R. D. (1996) Permanence and the assembly of ecological=20 communities. Ecology 77(3):762-775 Lomolino, M. V. and D. R. Perault (2000). Assembly and disassembly of=20 mammal communities in a fragmented temperate rain forest. Ecology 81:=20 1517-1532. Luh, H.-K. and S. L. Pimm (1993). The assembly of ecological communities: a= =20 minimalist approach. Journal of Animal Ecology 62: 749-765. Margalef, R., Gutierrez, E. (1983) How to introduce connectance in the=20 frame of an expression for diversity. American Naturalist 121(5):601-607 Margalef, R. (1963) Certain unifying principles in ecology. American=20 Naturalist 97(897):357 McCay, T. S., M. J. Lovallo, et al. (2004). Assembly rules for functional=20 groups of North American shrews: effects of geographic range and habitat=20 partitioning. Oikos 107(1): 141-147. McGill, B., B.J. Enquist, M. Westoby, and E. Weiher. (2006). Rebuilding=20 community ecology from functional traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution=20 21: 178-184. 4. Morris, D. W. and T. W. Knight (1996). Can consumer-resource dynamics=20 explain patterns of guild assembly? American Naturalist 147: 558-575. Morris, D. W. (2005). On the roles of time, space and habitat in a boreal=20 small mammal assemblage: predictably stochastic assembly. Oikos 109(2):=20 223-238. Morton, R. D., R. Law, et al. (1996). On models for assembling ecological=20 communities. Oikos 75(3): 493-499. Morton, R. D., Law, R. (1997). Regional species pools and the assembly of= =20 local ecological communities. Journal of Theoretical Biology 187(3):321-331 Mouquet, N., P. Munguia, et al. (2003). Community assembly time and the=20 relationship between local and regional species richness. Oikos 103:= 618-626. Poff, N.L. (1997) Landscape filters and species traits: Towards mechanistic= =20 understanding and prediction in stream ecology. Journal of the North=20 American Benthological Society, 16 , 391-409. Ribichich, A. M. (2005). From null community to non-randomly structured=20 actual plant assemblages: parsimony analysis of species co-occurrences.=20 Ecography 28(1): 88-98. Ricklefs, R. E. 1987. Community diversity: relative roles of local and=20 regional processes. Science 235:167 - 171. Schreiber, S. J. and S. Rittenhouse (2004). From simple rules to cycling in= =20 community assembly. Oikos 105(2): 349-358. Statzner,B., Hildrew,A.G., Resh,V.H. (2001) Species traits and=20 environmental constraints: Entomological research and the history of=20 ecological theory. Annual Review of Entomology, 46, 291-316. Stone, L., T. Dayan, et al. (2000). On desert rodents, favored states, and= =20 unresolved issues: scaling up and down regional assemblages and local=20 communities. American Naturalist 156: 322-328. Ulrich, W. (2004). Species co-occurrences and neutral models: reassessing=20 J. M. Diamond's assembly rules. Oikos 107(3): 603-609. Urban, M. C. (2004). Disturbance heterogeneity determines freshwater=20 metacommunity structure. Ecology 85(11): 2971-2978. Von Holle, B. and D. Simberloff (2004). Testing Fox's assembly rule: does=20 plant invasion depend on recipient community structure? Oikos 105(3):= 551-563. Watkins, A. J. (2003). Local texture convergence: a new approach to seeking= =20 assembly rules. Oikos 102: 525-532. Weiher, E., G.D.P. Clarke, and P.A. Keddy. 1998. Community assembly rules,= =20 morphological dispersion, and the coexistence of plant species. Oikos 81:=20 309-321. Weiher,E., Keddy,P.A. (1995) Assembly rules, null models, and trait=20 dispersion: New questions from old patterns. Oikos, 74, 159-164. Williams, R. J., Martinez, N. D. 2000. Simple rules yield complex food=20 webs. Nature 404(6774):180-183 Williams, R. J., Martinez, N. D. 2004. Limits to trophic levels and=20 omnivory in complex food webs: theory and data. American Naturalist=20 163(3):458-468 Wilson and Roxburgh. 1994. A demonstration of guild-based assembly rules=20 for a plant community, and determination of intrinsic guilds. Oikos= 69:267-276. Wilson, B. J., J. B. Steel, et al. (2000). A test of community reassembly=20 using the exotic communities of Nez Zeland roadsides in comparison to=20 British roadsides. Ecology 88: 757-764. Wilson, J. B., J. B. Steel, et al. (2000). Quantitative aspects of=20 community structure examined in a semi-arid grassland. Journal of Ecology=20 88(5): 749-756. Zobel, M. 1997. The relative role of species pools in determining plant=20 species richness: an alternative explanation of species coexistence.=20 Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12:266 - 269. Chapters and texts: Brown, J. H. and M. V. Lomolino (1998). Island biogeography: patterns in=20 the assembly and evolution. Biogeography. J. H. Brown and M. V. Lomolino.=20 Sunderland, Massachusetts, Sinaur Associates Inc.: 407-447. Diamond, J. M. (1975). Assembly of species communities. Ecology and=20 Evolution of Communities. M. L. Cody and J. M. Diamond. Cambridge, Harvard= =20 University Press: 342-444. Ehmann, W.J. 1994. The organization of shrub-steppe spider assemblages: a= =20 hierarchical evaluation of deterministic and stochastic influences. Ph.D.= =20 Dissertation, Utah State University, Logan, UT. 90p. Gotelli and Graves (1996) Null Models in Ecology. Ricklefs, RE and Miles DB. 1994. Ecological and evolutionary inferences=20 from morphology: an ecological perspective. IN PC Wainwritght and SM=20 Reilly (eds) Ecological Morphology, UChicago Press. p. 13-41. Roughgarden, J. 1989. The structure and assembly of communities. Pages 203= =20 - 226 in J. Roughgarden, R. M. May, and S. A. Levin, editors. Perspectives= =20 in Ecological Theory. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. Strong et al. (eds.) (1986) Ecological Communities. Temperton, V. et al. (editors) (2003) Assembly Rules and Restoration=20 Ecology. Island Press. Weiher, E and P. Keddy, eds. (1999) Ecological assembly rules:=20 perspectives, advances, retreats. Cambridge Univ. Press. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phil Novack-Gottshall Assistant Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Geosciences University of West Georgia Carrollton, GA 30118-3100 Phone: 678-839-4061 Fax: 678-839-4071 http://www.westga.edu/~pnovackg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =20
