These two books represent a synthesis and critical evaluation of studies conducted on bird communities, or sets of bird species that occur together. Drawing from studies conducted throughout the world, they review in detail what is known about the patterns of organization of such communities and the factors, such as competition, predation, past history, climate, habitat or disturbance that may determine these patterns. In Volume 1, the author considers why the avian community ecologists ask the questions they do, and how they have proceeded to answer them. The questions have generally involved both "what" (pattern) and "why" (process) components. Most of the volume is devoted to a critical evaluation of the patterns of bird communities. In Volume 2, the author considers how community organization patterns have been explained in terms of causal processes, how the operation of those processes has been determined, and how the patterns and our efforts to discern and understand them are influenced by the complexity and variability of natural environments.
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Community ecology is concerned with identifying the patterns that characterize natural assemblages of species, understanding what has caused these patterns, and determining how general they are. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
avian community ecology, distributional patchiness, shrubsteppe locations, guild structuring, multivariate morphological space, ecomorphological patterns, mainland densities, neotropical flycatchers, landbird species, habitat occupancy, guild assignments, ecologically similar species, bird census work, shrubsteppe birds, consuming biomass, habitat measures, density compensation, bill dimensions, foraging positions, niche patterns, bird species diversity, bird community structure, guild patterns, presumed competitors, forest bird communities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, West Indies, New Guinea, United States, Santa Cruz, Van Horne, Sage Sparrow, Grand Bahama, Coal Tits, Horned Lark, New Zealand, Wood Thrush, New Hebrides, South African, Western Meadowlark, South America, Willow Tit, Bering Sea, Canary Island, Grasshopper Sparrow, New Hampshire, Peruvian Andes, Puerto Rico, Sea of Cortez, South Georgia New!
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Community ecology is concerned with identifying the patterns that characterize natural assemblages of species, understanding what has caused these patterns, and determining how general they are. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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North America, West Indies, New Guinea, United States, Santa Cruz, Van Horne, Sage Sparrow, Grand Bahama, Coal Tits, Horned Lark, New Zealand, Wood Thrush, New Hebrides, South African, Western Meadowlark, South America, Willow Tit, Bering Sea, Canary Island, Grasshopper Sparrow, New Hampshire, Peruvian Andes, Puerto Rico, Sea of Cortez, South Georgia New!
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- Ecological Communities by Donald Strong on 13 pages
- Community Ecology by Ted J. Case on 6 pages
- Habitat Selection in Birds (Physiological Ecology) by Martin L. Cody on 6 pages
- Ecology and Evolution of Communities by Martin Cody on 6 pages
- Avian Biology, Volume 9 by Donald S. Farner on 5 pages
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- Wildlife Restoration: Techniques for Habitat Analysis and Animal Monitoring by Michael L. Morrison on page 71, page 164, and page 186
- Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation by Kevin Gutzwiller on page 19, and page 3
- Experimental Ecology: Issues and Perspectives by William J. Resetarits Jr. on page 279, and page 436
- Preserving Wildlife: An International Perspective (Flashpoints (Amherst, N.Y.).) by Mark A. Michael on page 68, and page 74
- Ecological Morphology: Integrative Organismal Biology by Peter C. Wainwright on page 41, and page 98
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