Introduction
Martin L. Cody and Jared M. Diamond

Bibliography of Robert MacArthur

I. The Evolution of Species Abundance and Diversity

1. Evolution in Communities Near Equilibrium
Richard Levins

2. Population Fluctuations, Community Stability, and Environmental Variability
Egbert G. Leigh, Jr.

3. Environmental Fluctuations and Species Diversity
John W. MacArthur

4. Patterns of Species Abundance and Diversity
Robert M. May

5. On Continental Steady States of Species Diversity
Michael L. Rosenzweig

II. Competitive Strategies of Resource Allocation

6. Selection for Optimal Life Histories in Plants
William M. Schaffer and Madhav D. Gadgil

7. Prey Characteristics and Predator Niche Width
Henry A. Hespenheide

8. The Temporal Component of Butterfly Species Diversity
Arthur M. Shapiro

9. Markovian Processes of Forest Succession
Henry S. Horn

III. Community Structure

10. Towards a Theory of Continental Species Diversities
Martin L. Cody

11. Ecomorphological Configurations and Convergent Evolution
James R. Karr and Frances C. James

12. Niche Relations of Desert Lizards
Eric R. Pianka

13. Geographical Ecology of Desert Rodents
James H. Brown

14. Assembly of Species Communities,
Jared M. Diamond

15. Structure of Stream Communities
Ruth Patrick

16. Some Mechanisms Producing Structure in Natural Communities
Joseph H. Connell

IV. Outlook

17. Variations on a Theme by Robert MacArthur
G. Evelyn Hutchinson

18. Applied Biogeography
Edward 0. Wilson and Edwin 0. Willis

Index

Contributors