Direct Mechanisms for Facilitation -- Indirect Mechanisms for Facilitation -- Interaction Between Competition and Facilitation -- Species-Specific Positive Interactions -- Positive Interactions and Community Organization
Summary
Positive interactions and interdependence in plant communities offers a new look at an old problem? the nature of the communities. This book marshals ecological literature from the last century on facilitation to make the case against the widely accepted?individualistic? notion of community organization. Clearly, many species in many communities would not be present without the ameliorating effects of other species. In other words, communities are not produced only by summing the population ecology of species. Concepts covered include the idea that positive interactions are more prevalent in
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-411) and index