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Klappentext Processes and Variations, discusses the ways in which bird community patterns have been interpreted. It describes how ecologists have gone about identifying the factors believed to influence the patterns of organization of of bird communities and examines how the complexity and variability of natural environments may influence efforts to discern and understand the nature of these communities. Zusammenfassung The two volumes of John Wiens' The Ecology of Bird Communities! first published in 1992! have applications and importance to the whole field of ecology. Volume 1! Foundations and Patterns! is mainly devoted to a critical evaluation of what is known about the nature and organisation of bird communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
