From plant traits to vegetation structure : chance and selection in the assembly of ecological communities / Bill Shipley. — Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. – (58.85/S557)

Contents

    Contents
    
    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
    References
    Index