Dear Phil,
Here is a list of references related (some indirectly) to assembly
rules:
Belyea, L. R. and J. Lancaster (1999). "Assembly rules within a
contingent ecology." Oikos 86: 402-416.
Brown, J. H. and M. V. Lomolino (1998). Island biogeography: patterns
in the assembly and evolution. Biogeography. J. H. Brown and M. V.
Lomolino. Sunderland, Massachusetts, Sinaur Associates Inc.: 407-447.
Brown, J. H., B. J. Fox, et al. (2000). "Assembly rules: Desert rodent
communities are structured at scales from local to continental."
American Naturalist 156: 314-321.
Brown, J. H., D. A. Kelt, et al. (2002). "Assembly rules and
competition in desert rodents." American Naturalist 160(6): 815-818.
Diamond, J. M. (1975). Assembly of species communities. Ecology and
Evolution of Communities. M. L. Cody and J. M. Diamond. Cambridge,
Harvard University Press: 342-444.
Fleming, T. H. (2005). "The relationship between species richness of
vertebrate mutualists and their food plants in tropical and subtropical
communities differs among hemispheres." Oikos 111(3): 556-562.
Fukami, T. (2004). "Assembly history interacts with ecosystem size to
influence species diversity." Ecology 85(12): 3234-3242.
Gotelli, N. J., N. J. Buckley, et al. (1997). "Co-occurrence of
Australian land birds: Diamond's assembly rules revisted." Oikos 80:
311-324.
Gotelli, N. J. and D. J. McCabe (2002). "Species co-occurrence: A
meta-analysis of J. M. Diamond's assembly rules model." Ecology 83(8):
2091-2096.
Gotelli, N. J. and A. M. Ellison (2002). "Assembly rules for new
England ant assemblages." Oikos 99(3): 591-599.
Granado-Lorencio, C., C. Lima, et al. (2005). "Abundance - distribution
relationships in fish assembly of the Amazonas floodplain lakes."
Ecography 28(4): 515-520.
Hraber, P. T. and B. T. Milne (1997). "Community assembly in a model
ecosystem." Ecological Modelling 103: 267-285.
Hubbell, S. P. (1997). "A unified theory of biogeography and relative
species abundance and its application to tropical rain forests and
coral reefs." Coral Reefs 16: S9-S21.
Kelt, D. A., M. L. Taper, et al. (1995). "Assessing the impact of
competition on community assembly: A case study using small mammals."
Ecology 76: 1283-1296.
Kelt, D. A. (1997). "Assembly of local communities: consequences of an
optimal body size for the organization of competitively structured
communities." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 62: 15-37.
Kinzig, A. P., S. A. Levin, et al. (1999). "Limiting similarity,
species packing, and system stability for hierarchical
competition-colonization models." American Naturalist 153: 371-383.
Lomolino, M. V. and D. R. Perault (2000). "Assembly and disassembly of
mammal communities in a fragmented temperate rain forest." Ecology 81:
1517-1532.
Luh, H.-K. and S. L. Pimm (1993). "The assembly of ecological
communities: a minimalist approach." Journal of Animal Ecology 62:
749-765.
McCay, T. S., M. J. Lovallo, et al. (2004). "Assembly rules for
functional groups of North American shrews: effects of geographic range
and habitat partitioning." Oikos 107(1): 141-147.
Morris, D. W. and T. W. Knight (1996). "Can consumer-resource dynamics
explain patterns of guild assembly?" American Naturalist 147: 558-575.
Morris, D. W. (2005). "On the roles of time, space and habitat in a
boreal small mammal assemblage: predictably stochastic assembly." Oikos
109(2): 223-238.
Morton, R. D., R. Law, et al. (1996). "On models for assembling
ecological communities." Oikos 75(3): 493-499.
Mouquet, N., P. Munguia, et al. (2003). "Community assembly time and
the relationship between local and regional species richness." Oikos
103: 618-626.
Ribichich, A. M. (2005). "From null community to non-randomly
structured actual plant assemblages: parsimony analysis of species
co-occurrences." Ecography 28(1): 88-98.
Schreiber, S. J. and S. Rittenhouse (2004). "From simple rules to
cycling in community assembly." Oikos 105(2): 349-358.
Stone, L., T. Dayan, et al. (2000). "On desert rodents, favored states,
and unresolved issues: scaling up and down regional assemblages and
local communities." American Naturalist 156: 322-328.
Ulrich, W. (2004). "Species co-occurrences and neutral models:
reassessing J. M. Diamond's assembly rules." Oikos 107(3): 603-609.
Urban, M. C. (2004). "Disturbance heterogeneity determines freshwater
metacommunity structure." Ecology 85(11): 2971-2978.
Von Holle, B. and D. Simberloff (2004). "Testing Fox's assembly rule:
does plant invasion depend on recipient community structure?" Oikos
105(3): 551-563.
Watkins, A. J. (2003). "Local texture convergence: a new approach to
seeking assembly rules." Oikos 102: 525-532.
Weiher, E. and P. A. Keddy (1995). "Assembly rules, null models, and
trait dispersion: new questions from old patterns." Oikos 74: 159-164.
Wilson, B. J., J. B. Steel, et al. (2000). "A test of community
reassembly using the exotic communities of Nez Zeland roadsides in
comparison to British roadsides." Ecology 88: 757-764.
Wilson, J. B., J. B. Steel, et al. (2000). "Quantitative aspects of
community structure examined in a semi-arid grassland." Journal of
Ecology 88(5): 749-756.
Good luck,
-- Yaron
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