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Patterns in nature : the analysis of species co-occurrences /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sanderson, James G., 1949- (Author), Pimm, Stuart L. (Stuart Leonard) (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Biogeography.
Biotic communities.
Null models (Ecology)
Pattern formation (Biology)
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The distribution of species on islands
  • Patterns or fantasies?
  • Species co-occurrences
  • The night sky effect
  • Patterns in nature
  • Finding the null
  • What this book is about
  • How this book is organized
  • Diamond's assembly rules
  • Robert Macarthur, 1930-1972
  • Special islands and their birds
  • What is a checkerboard distribution?
  • Incidence
  • The theoretical context
  • The cuckoo doves
  • Patchy distributions
  • The response of Connor and Simberloff
  • The backlash
  • How likely are checkerboards?
  • Prior expectations
  • The analysis of Vanuatu
  • A technical interlude
  • How to incorporate constraints into incidence matrices
  • Definitions and notation
  • The numbers of null matrices and the effect of constraints
  • The hypergeometric distribution
  • The three ecological constraints proposed by Connor and Simberloff in their studies of birds and bats on islands
  • Incidence
  • Why constraints? and what does "representative" mean?
  • How to fill the sample null space
  • Null space creation algorithms
  • Creating a uniform random sample null space
  • The trial-swap algorithm
  • How to characterize incidence matrices
  • Then you need a metric
  • The metric of Connor and Simberloff
  • Wright and Biehl
  • Harvey et al.'s (1983) review of null models in ecology
  • Stone and Roberts (1990, 1992) and Roberts and Stone
  • Why ensemble metrics fail: an example
  • Reanalysis and extensions
  • Vanuatu and the Galapagos
  • The birds of Vanuatu
  • The birds of the Galapagos
  • The birds of the Bismarck and Solomon islands
  • The issue of superspecies
  • The patterns
  • Taxonomic sieving and incidence effects
  • Which genera develop checkerboards?
  • Caveats
  • When the incidences do not overlap
  • Coda
  • Species along a gradient
  • The herptofauna of Mount Kupe, Cameroon
  • Why do the results differ from previous results?
  • The second question: do species form distinct communities?
  • Applications to food webs: nestedness and reciprocal specialization
  • Nestedness
  • Groupings of species interactions
  • Coda
  • Macarthur's original vision
  • The patterns themselves
  • The need for null hypotheses.