TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sanderson,James G.
AU  - Pimm,Stuart L.
AU  - 
TI  - Patterns in nature: the analysis of species co-occurrences 
SN  - 9780226292861
AV  - QH84 .P388 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Biogeography
KW  - Biotic communities
KW  - Null models (Ecology)
KW  - Pattern formation (Biology)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The distribution of species on islands --; Patterns or fantasies? --; Species co-occurrences --; The night sky effect --; Patterns in nature --; Finding the null --; What this book is about --; How this book is organized --; Diamond's assembly rules --; Robert Macarthur, 1930-1972 --; Special islands and their birds --; What is a checkerboard distribution? --; Incidence --; The theoretical context --; The cuckoo doves --; Patchy distributions --; The response of Connor and Simberloff --; The backlash --; How likely are checkerboards? --; Prior expectations --; The analysis of Vanuatu --; A technical interlude --; How to incorporate constraints into incidence matrices --; Definitions and notation --; The numbers of null matrices and the effect of constraints --; The hypergeometric distribution --; The three ecological constraints proposed by Connor and Simberloff in their studies of birds and bats on islands --; Incidence --; Why constraints? and what does "representative" mean? --; How to fill the sample null space --; Null space creation algorithms --; Creating a uniform random sample null space --; The trial-swap algorithm --; How to characterize incidence matrices --; Then you need a metric --; The metric of Connor and Simberloff --; Wright and Biehl --; Harvey and others's (1983) review of null models in ecology --; Stone and Roberts (1990, 1992) and Roberts and Stone --; Why ensemble metrics fail: an example --; Reanalysis and extensions --; Vanuatu and the Galapagos --; The birds of Vanuatu --; The birds of the Galapagos --; The birds of the Bismarck and Solomon islands --; The issue of superspecies --; The patterns --; Taxonomic sieving and incidence effects --; Which genera develop checkerboards? --; Caveats --; When the incidences do not overlap --; Coda --; Species along a gradient --; The herptofauna of Mount Kupe, Cameroon --; Why do the results differ from previous results? --; The second question: do species form distinct communities? --; Applications to food webs: nestedness and reciprocal specialization --; Nestedness --; Groupings of species interactions --; Coda --; Macarthur's original vision --; The patterns themselves --; The need for null hypotheses; 2; b
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