Ecological assembly rules : perspectives, advances, retreats

Introduction Paul A. Keddy and Evan Weiher Part I. The Search for Meaningful Patterns in Species Assemblages: 1. The genesis and development of guild assembly rules Barry J. Fox 2. Ruling out a community assembly rule: the method of favored states Daniel Simberloff, Lewi Stone and Tamar Dayan 3. Community structure and assembly rules: confronting conceptual and statistical issues with data on desert rodents Douglas A. Kelt and James H. Brown 4. Introduced avifaunas as natural experiments in community assembly Julie L. Lockwood, Michael Moulton and Karla L. Balent 5. Assembly rules in plant communities J. Bastow Wilson 6. Assembly rules at different scales in plant and bird communities Martin L. Cody 7. Impact of language, history and choice of system on the study of assembly rules Barbara D. Booth and Douglas W. Larson Part II. Other Perspectives on Community Assembly: 8. On the nature of the assembly trajectory James A. Drake, Craig R. Zimmerman, Tom Purucker and Carmen Rojo 9. Assembly rules as general constraints on community composition Evan Weiher and Paul A. Keddy 10. A species-based, hierarchical model of island biogeography Mark V. Lomolino 11. Interaction of physical and biological processes in the assembly of stream fish communities Elizabeth M. Strange and Theodore C. Foin 12. Functional implications of trait-environment linkages in plant communities Sandra Diaz, Marcelo Cabido and Fernandez Casanoves 13. When does restoration succeed? Julie L. Lockwood and Stuart L. Pimm 14. Assessing the state of the assembly rules Paul Keddy Index.