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Preface.. List of Contributors.. Introduction.. Part I Shape and Structure.. 1. The Topology of Ecological Interaction Networks: The State of the Art.. Part II Dynamics.. 2. Trophic Dynamics of Communities.. 3. Modeling the Dynamics of Complex Food Webs.. 4. Community Assembly Dynamics in Space.. Part III Space and Time.. 5. Increasing Spatio-Temporal Scales: Metacommunity Ecology.. 6. Spatio-Temporal Structure in Soil Communities and Ecosystem Processes.. Part IV Applications.. 7. Applications of Community Ecology Approaches in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Local Problems, Remote Causes.. 8. Sea Changes: Structure and Functioning of Emerging Marine Communities.. 9. Applied (Metacommunity Ecology: Diversity and Ecosystem Services at the Intersection of Local and Regional Processes.. 10. Community Ecology and Management of Salt Marshes.. Part V Future Directions.. 11. Evolutionary Processes in Community Ecology.. 12. Emergence of Complex Food Web Structure in Community Evolution Models.. 13. Mutualisms and Community Organization.. 14. Emerging Frontiers of Community Ecology.. References.. Index

Community ecology is the study of the interactions between populations of coexisting species. This book provides a state of the art in theory, models and applications of community ecology, with special attention to its topology, dynamics, the importance of spatial and temporal scale as well as applications to emerging problems in human-dominated ecosystems (including the restoration and reconstruction of viable communities). It adopts a mainly theoretical approach and focuses on the use of network-based theories and models which are little explored in standard community ecology textbooks. The book includes discussion of the effects of biotic invasions on natural communities, the linking of ecological network structure to empirically measured community approaches, the effects of evolution on community patterns and processes, and the integration of fundamental interactions into ecological networks. A final chapter indicates future research directions for the discipline. As such, this book provides ideal graduate seminar course material. Community Ecology will be suitable for graduate-level students as well as professional researchers in the fields of population and community ecology, network biology and theoretical ecology. Inglés