@article {ODwyer2009Integrative,
	title = {An integrative framework for stochastic, size-structured community assembly},
	journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
	volume = {106},
	number = {15},
	year = {2009},
	month = {April},
	pages = {6170{\textendash}6175},
	abstract = {10.1073/pnas.0813041106 We present a theoretical framework to describe stochastic, size-structured community assembly, and use this framework to make community-level ecological predictions. Our model can be thought of as adding biological realism to Neutral Biodiversity Theory by incorporating size variation and growth dynamics, and allowing demographic rates to depend on the sizes of individuals. We find that the species abundance distribution (SAD) is insensitive to the details of the size structure in our model, demonstrating that the SAD is a poor indicator of size-dependent processes. We also derive the species biomass distribution (SBD) and find that the form of the SBD depends on the underlying size structure. This leads to a prescription for testing multiple, intertwined ecological predictions of the model, and provides evidence that alternatives to the traditional SAD are more closely tied to certain ecological processes. Finally, we describe how our framework may be extended to make predictions for more general types of community structure.},
	keywords = {assembly, communities, ecology, populations, theory},
	doi = {10.1073/pnas.0813041106},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0813041106},
	author = {O{\textquoteright}Dwyer, J. P. and Lake, J. K. and Ostling, A. and Savage, V. M. and Green, J. L.}
}
@article {Weiher1995Assembly,
	title = {Assembly Rules, Null Models, and Trait Dispersion: New Questions from Old Patterns},
	journal = {Oikos},
	volume = {74},
	number = {1},
	year = {1995},
	pages = {159{\textendash}164},
	publisher = {Blackwell Publishing on behalf of Nordic Society Oikos},
	keywords = {assembly, communities, ecology},
	issn = {00301299},
	doi = {10.2307/3545686},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3545686},
	author = {Weiher, Evan and Keddy, Paul A.}
}
@article {FarnonEllwood2009Stochastic,
	title = {Stochastic and deterministic processes jointly structure tropical arthropod communities},
	journal = {Ecology Letters},
	volume = {12},
	number = {4},
	year = {2009},
	month = {April},
	pages = {277{\textendash}284},
	address = {University Museum of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK},
	abstract = {The question of whether ecological assemblages are structured by stochastic and deterministic (e.g. interspecific competition) processes is controversial, but it is difficult to design sampling regimes and experiments that can dissect the relative importance of stochastic and deterministic processes in natural assemblages. Using null models, we tested communities of arthropod decomposers in tropical epiphytes for patterns of species co-occurrence, while controlling for habitat gradients, seasonal variations and ecological succession. When environmental conditions were controlled, our analysis showed that the communities were structured stochastically. However, analysing mixed sets of communities that were deliberately created either from two distinct heights or two successional stages revealed that communities were structured deterministically. These results confirm that habitat gradients and dispersal/competition trade-offs are capable of generating non-random patterns within decomposer arthropod communities, but reveal that when such effects are accounted for, species co-occurrence is fundamentally random.},
	keywords = {assembly, biodiversity, communities, ecology, nullmodels, structure},
	issn = {1461023X},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01284.x},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01284.x},
	author = {Farnon Ellwood, M. D. and Manica, Andrea and Foster, William A.}
}
