Community Ecology, BIOL 7083 – Fall 2003



Community Ecology, BIOL 7083 – Fall 2018

Louisiana State University – Department of Biological Sciences

Reference List

I have presented the references under topic headings; the order corresponds to the order in which I have presented the topics in previous versions of the course (the order is a bit different from the order in which topics are presented in the textbook we are using this semester, i.e., G. Mittelbach’s [2012] Community Ecology).

For a reference that I used to prepare lectures under multiple topic headings, its citation information appears only once, so if you are looking for a particular reference you might have to search the document for the author if you do not find that reference under a particular topic.

This is a work-in-progress, so if you find mistakes and want to send me the corrections, or if you can add the missing details to incomplete entries, please send me e-mail: kharms@lsu.edu

1. What is Community Ecology?

Additional references:

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Lewontin, R. C. 1974. The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change. Columbia U. Press, N.Y. [P. A. Keddy (1992; Keddy & Weiher chapt. 1999, pg. 19) refers to Lewontin’s description of “the agony of community ecology”]

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MacArthur, Robert H. 1972. Geographical Ecology: Patterns in the Distribution of Species. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

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McPeek, Mark A. 2017. Evolutionary Community Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

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Mittelbach, Gary G. 2012. Community Ecology. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.

Mittelbach, Gary G. & Douglas W. Schemske. 2015. Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on community assembly. TREE…

Morin, Peter J. 1999. Community Ecology. Blackwell Science, Inc., Oxford, U.K.

Morin, Peter J. 2011. Community Ecology, 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, U.K.

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2. Community-level patterns: Species richness; alpha, beta & gamma diversity; some geographic patterns (e.g., species-area curves, ecotones), the processes that cause them (e.g., Island Biogeography Theory), and considerations of scale; etc.

Additional references:

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8. Pair-wise species interactions: Mutualisms (pollination, seed dispersal, trophic & defense symbioses, etc.) and other types of Facilitation

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9. Multiple-species interactions: community modules; food webs; foundation species, interaction networks, keystone species & ecosystem engineers; higher-order interactions; indirect effects (e.g., apparent competition); top-down & bottom-up effects; tri-trophic interactions; trophic cascades; assembly rules (including priority effects, and contrasts with ecological filters or sieves); extended phenotypes; etc.

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11. Origins and maintenance of species diversity and diversity gradients. II. Phylogenetic perspectives, community-level convergence, and etc.

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See: Integrating Ecology and Phylogenetics (2012) Ecology v. 93, no. 8 Supplement.

See: Phylogenetic Approaches to Community Ecology (2006) Ecology v. 87 no. 7 Supplement.

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12. Diversity-productivity, diversity-stability, diversity-invasibility, and richness-function relationships

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