Preface ..................................................... ix
1 Playing with loaded dice ..................................... 1
2 Population-based models of community assembly ............... 10
3 Trait-based community ecology ............................... 36
4 Modeling trait-based environmental filters: Bayesian
statistics, information theory and the Maximum Entropy
Formalism ................................................... 82
5 Community dynamics, natural selection and the origin
of community-aggregated traits ............................. 144
6 Community assembly during a Mediterranean succession ....... 199
7 The statistical mechanics of species abundance
distributions .............................................. 213
8 Epilogue: traits are not enough ............................ 255
References ................................................. 260
Index ...................................................... 275
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