Community Ecology, biol 7083 – Spring 2014 Louisiana State University – Department of Biological Sciences Reference List

Community Ecology, BIOL 7083 – Spring 2014

Louisiana State University – Department of Biological Sciences

Reference List
I have presented the references under topic headings; the order corresponds to the course schedule found in the syllabus. For a reference that was used to prepare lectures under multiple topic headings, its citation appears once under the topic heading for which it was first used.
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1. What is Community Ecology?
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2. Community-level patterns: Species richness; alpha, beta & gamma diversity; some geographic patterns (e.g., species-area curves), the processes that cause them (e.g., Island Biogeography Theory), and considerations of scale; etc.
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3. Community-level patterns: Relative abundance distributions
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4. Pair-wise species interactions: Competition. I. Theory
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