Untangling Ecological Complexity - The Macroscopic Perspective (Paper)

Acknowledgments ix Of Entangled Banks and Humble Bees 1(20) From Micro to Macro and Back Again 21(27) Communities on Small Spatial and Temporal Scales 48(18) Communities as Linear Systems 66(25) Communities as Nonlinear Systems 91(21) Macroecology: Expanding the Spatial Scale of Community Ecology 112(30) Geographic Range Structure: Niches Written in Space 142(21) Geographic Assembly of Local Communities 163(21) The Evolution of Species Diversity at the Macroscale 184(23) The Macroscopic Perspective and the Future of Ecology 207(10) Literature Cited 217(20) Index 237