Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Why assembly rules are important to the field of restoration ecology
Richard J. Hobbs, Vicky M. Temperton, Tim J. Nuttle, Marzio Fattorini & Stefan Halle
Part I: Assembly rules and the search for a conceptual framework for restoration ecology
Chapter 2 Advances in restoration ecology: insights from aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
Stefan Halle & Marzio Fattorini
Chapter 3 The search for ecological assembly rules and its relevance to restoration ecology
Vicky M. Temperton & Richard J. Hobbs,
Chapter 4 Assembly models and the practice of restoration
Julie L. Lockwood & Corey L. Samuels,
Part II Ecological filters as a form of assembly rule
Chapter 5 Ecological filters, thresholds and gradients in resistance to ecosystem reassembly
Richard J. Hobbs & David A. Norton,
Chapter 6 The dynamic environmental filter model: how do filtering effects change in assembling communities after disturbance?
Marzio Fattorini & Stefan Halle,
Chapter 7 Beyond ecological filters: feedback networks in the assembly and restoration of community structure
Lisa R. Belyea
Part III Assembly rules and community structure
Chapter 8 Self-organization of plankton communities: a test of freshwater restoration
Carmen Rojo Garcia-Morato
Chapter 9 Functional group interaction patterns across trophic levels in a regenerating and a seminatural grassland
Winfried Voigt & Jörg Perner
Chapter 10 Structure, dynamics and restoration of plant communities: do arbuscular mycorrhizae matter?
Carsten Renker, Martin Zobel, Maarja Öpik, Michael F. Allen, Edith B. Allen, Miroslav Vosatka, Jana Rydlová & Francois Buscot
Chapter 11 Application of stable isotopes to investigate food web development in regenerating ecosystems.
Jan Rothe and Gerd Gleixner
Part IV Assembly rules in severely disturbed environments
Chapter 12 Plant community assembly in extreme habitats: a case study on the roles of seed dispersal capacity and seedling salt tolerance
Markus Wagner
Chapter 13 Order of arrival and availability of safe sites--an example of their importance for plant community assembly in stressed ecosystems
Vicky M.Temperton & Kerstin Zirr
Chapter 14 Are assembly rules apparent in the regeneration of a former uranium mining site?
Hartmut Sänger & Gottfried Jetschke
Chapter 15 The role of nutrients and the importance of function in the assembly of ecosystems
Anthony INITIAL? J. ?Bradshaw
Part V Disturbance and assembly
Chapter 16 Disturbance, succession, and community assembly
Peter S. White & Anke Jentsch,
Chapter 17 Disturbance, assembly rules and benthic communities in running waters: A review and some implications for restoration projects
Christoph D. Matthaei, Kathi A. Peacock, Chris J. Arbuckle, Dean A. Olsen & Colin R. Townsend
Chapter 18 How structure controls assembly in the hyporheic zone of rivers and streams--colmation as a disturbance
Eva-Barbara Meidl & Wilfried Schönborn
Chapter 19 Modelling of plant community assembly in relation to deterministic and stochastic processes
Gerrit Heil
Synthesis
Chapter 20 Assembly rules and ecosystem restoration: where to from here?
Tim J. Nuttle, Richard J. Hobbs, Vicky M.Temperton, & Stefan Halle
List of Contributors
Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Restoration ecology, Biotic communities
