Interactions between species are of fundamental importance to all living systems and the framework we have for studying these interactions is community ecology.

Presenting the latest thinking in the field, this book bridges a major gap in knowledge by considering both theoretical and practical issues relating to communi

"Chapter 1 establishes the context of such a search for pattern, presenting essential definitions and exploring early work on community structure and organizati

This book collects the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Open Software - OSS 2006, held in Como, Italy in June, 2006, where researchers from