This unique book synthesizes the ongoing long-term community ecology studies of fish, amphibians, reptiles,
birds, and mammals. The studies have been conducted from deserts to rainforests as well as in terrestrial, freshwater,
and marine habitats and provide valuable insight that can be obtained only through persistent, diligent, and year-after-year
investigation.
Provides unique perspectives of community stability and variation
Details the influence of natural and other perturbations on community structure
Includes synopses by well-known authors
Presents results from a broad range of vertebrate taxa
Studies were conducted at different latitudes and in different habitats