Community Ecology, BIOL 7083
Louisiana State University – Department of Biological Sciences
Reference List
I have presented the references under topic headings; the order corresponds to the course schedule. 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.
I know this list is incomplete and contains errors. I would be grateful if you find something that needs to be corrected, or if you have a book or article that would be useful to add to the list, that you would send me an e-mail message (to ).
1. What is Community Ecology?
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Inchausti, Pablo. 1994. Reductionist approaches in community ecology. Am. Nat. 143:201-221.
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Paine, Robert T. 2010. Macroecology: Does it ignore or can it encourage further ecological syntheses based on spatially local experimental manipulations? The American Naturalist 176:385-393.
Pianka, E. R. 1992. The state of the art in community ecology. Proceedings of the First World Congress of Herpetology. In Herpetology: Current Research on the Biology of Amphibians & Reptiles, ed. K. Adler, pp. 141-162. Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles, Oxford, OH. [“community ecology has for too long been perceived as repugnant and intractably complex… the discipline has been neglected and now lags far behind the rest of ecology”]
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Simberloff, Daniel. 2004. Community ecology: is it time to move on? The American Naturalist 163:787-799.
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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.
Allouche, Omri, Michael Kalyuzhny, Gregorio Moreno-Rueda, Manuel Pizarro & Ronen Kadmon. 2012. Area-heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:17495-17500.
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Brown, James H. 2014. Why are there so many species in the tropics? Journal of Biogeography 41:8-22. [Emphasizes kinetics – “the Red Queen runs fasters when she is hot;” see also: Field & Svenning (2014) Tropical diversity and the energetic ecology of the Red Queen. Journal of Biogeography 41:6-7.]