1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449695303321

Titolo

Ecological assembly rules : perspectives, advances, retreats / / edited by Evan Weiher and Paul Keddy [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-107-11738-0

1-280-42065-0

9786610420650

0-511-17422-5

0-511-04049-0

0-511-15391-0

0-511-32815-X

0-511-54223-2

0-511-04822-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 418 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

577.8/2

Soggetti

Biotic communities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The scope and goals of research on assembly rules / Paul Keddy, Evan Weiher -- The genesis and development of guild assembly rules / Barry J. Fox -- Ruling out a community assembly rule: the method of favored states / Daniel Simberloff, Lewi Stone, Tamar Dayan -- Community structure and assembly rules: confronting conceptual and statistical issues with data on desert rodents / Douglas A. Kelt, James H. Brown -- Introduced avifaunas as natural experiments in community assembly / Julie L. Lockwood, Michael P. Moulton, Karla L. Balent -- Assembly rules in plant communities / J. Bastow Wilson -- Assembly rules at different scales in plant and bird communities / Martin L. Cody -- Impact of language, history and choice of system on the study of assembly rules / Barbara D. Booth, Douglas W. Larson -- On the nature of the assembly trajectory / James A. Drake, Craig R. Zimmerman, Tom Purucker [and others] -- Assembly rules as general constraints on community composition / Evan Weiher, Paul Keddy -- A



species-based, hierarchical model of island biogeography / Mark V. Lomolino -- Interaction of physical and biological processes in the assembly of stream fish communities / Elizabeth M. Strange, Theodore C. Foin -- Functional implications of trait-environment linkages in plant communities / Sandra Dʹiaz, Marcelo Cabido, Fernando Casanoves -- When does restoration succeed? / Julie L. Lockwood, Stuart L. Pimm -- Epilogue: From global exploration to community assembly / Paul Keddy.

Sommario/riassunto

It is over twenty years since Jared Diamond focused attention on the possible existence of assembly rules for communities. Since then there has been a proliferation of studies trying to promote, refute or test the idea that there are sets of constraints (rules) on community formation and maintenance (assembly). This timely volume brings together carefully selected contributions which examine the question of the existence and nature of assembly rules with some rigour and in some detail, using both theoretical and empirical approaches in a variety of systems. The result is a balanced treatment which encompasses a wide range of topics within ecology including competition and coexistence, conservation and biodiversity, niche theory, and biogeography. As such it provides much to interest a broad audience of ecologists, while also making an important contribution to the study of community ecology in particular.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910369924103321

Autore

Menéndez Agustín José

Titolo

Challenging European Citizenship : Ideas and Realities in Contrast / / by Agustín José Menéndez, Espen D. H. Olsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2020

ISBN

9783030222819

3030222810

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, , 2662-5881

Disciplina

323.6

323.6094

Soggetti

Europe - Politics and government

Political science

Constitutional law

European Politics

Political Science

Constitutional Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Yardstick: The Concept and the Conception of Citizenship -- Chapter 2. The Conept and the Conception of Citizenship -- Part II. From the European Personal Status to European Citizenship -- Chapter 3. The Ambivalence of European Integration: Between Proto-Citizenship and a Shared Nationality -- Chapter 4. European Citizenship: Between Formal Status and Practice -- Part III. From European Citizenship to Citizenship? -- Chapter 5. From Practice to Theory: Academic Discourses on European Citizenship. Chapter 6. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a critique of the way in which European citizenship is imagined and practiced. Setting their analysis in its full historical context, the authors challenge preconceived ideas about European citizenship on the basis of a detailed reconstruction of political, social and economic practice. In particular, they show the extent to which the elimination of formal internal borders within Europe has come hand in



glove with the emergence of new socio-economic boundaries and the hardening of external borders. The book concludes with a number of concrete proposals to forge a genuinely post-national form of membership. Agustín José Menéndez is Lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and Visiting Researcher, ARENA, University of Oslo, Norway. He is co-author of The Constitution's Gift (with J.E. Fossum, 2011). He was chief editor of theEuropean Law Journal (2013-2018). Espen D. H. Olsen is Senior Researcher, ARENA - Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Transnational Citizenship in the European Union: Past, Present and Future (2012).