Community Ecology, 2nd Edition

Preface to the First Edition.

Part I: Communities: Basic Patterns and Elementary Processes.

1. Communities.

2. Competition: Mechanisms, Models, and Niches.

3. Competition: Experiments, Observations, and Null Models.

4. Predation and Communities.  Empirical patterns.

5. Models of predation in simple communities.

6. Food Webs.

7. Mutualisms.

8.Indirect Effects.

Part II: Factors Influencing Interactions Among Species.

9. Temporal Patterns: Seasonal Dynamics, Priority Effects, and Assembly Rules.

10. Habitat Selection.

11. Spatial Dynamics.

Part III: Large-scale, Integrative Community Phenomena.

12. Causes and Consequences of Diversity.

13. Succession.

14. Applied Community Ecology.

Appendix: Stability Analysis.

Bibliography.

Index.