- 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 O. Wilson and Edwin O. Willis]
- Index
- Contributors
Ecology and Evolution of Communities
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