The Ecology of Bird Communities (Paperback)

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. The Foundation of Avian Community Ecology: 1. The development of avian community ecology; 2. Determining pattern and process: the logical structure of community ecology; 3. The importance of methodology; Part II. The Patterns of Avian Communities: 4. The assembly of communities; 5. Numbers of species and their abundances; 6. Niche theory and guilds; 7. Ecomorphological patterns of communities; 8. Distributional patterns of species; 9. Habitat distributions of species; 10. Resources and their use; 11. Density compensation and niche shifts; 12. Convergence of species and communities; 13. Bioenergetic approaches to communities; 14. A re-examination of the recent history of avian community ecology; References; Author index; Subject index.