From Plant Traits to Vegetation Structure: Chance and Selection in the Assembly of Ecological Communities

Preface 1. Playing with loaded dice 2. Population-based models of community assembly 3. Trait-based community ecology 4. Modeling trait-based environmental filters: Bayesian statistics, information theory and the maximum entropy formalism 5. Community dynamics, natural selection and the origin of community-aggregated traits 6. Community assembly during a Mediterranean succession 7. The statistical mechanics of species abundance distributions 8. Epilogue: traits are not enough.

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