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A comprehensive framework for understanding species coexistenceCoexistence is the central concept in community ecology, but an understanding of this concept requires that we study the actual mechanisms of species interactions. Coexistence in Ecology examines the major features of these mechanisms for species that coexist at different positions in complex food webs and derives empirical tests from model predictions.Mark McPeek explores the various challenges species face by systematically building a model food web, beginning with an ecosystem devoid of life and then adding one species at a time. With the introduction of each new species, he evaluates the properties it must possess to invade a community and quantifies the changes in the abundances of other species that result from a successful invasion. McPeek continues this process until he achieves a multi-trophic level food web with many species coexisting at each trophic level, from omnivores, mutualists, and pathogens to herbivores, carnivores, and basic plants. He then describes the observational and experimental empirical studies that can test the theoretical predictions resulting from the model analyses.Synthesizing decades of theoretical research in community ecology, Coexistence in Ecology offers new perspectives on how to develop an empirical program of study rooted in the natural histories of species and the mechanisms by which they actually interact with one another.

Biotic communities. --- Coexistence of species. --- Ecology. --- Abiotic component. --- Allee effect. --- Allelopathy. --- Alternative stable state. --- Apex predator. --- Autocorrelation. --- Biodiversity loss. --- Biological interaction. --- Carrying capacity. --- Cascade effect (ecology). --- Chemostat. --- Coexistence theory. --- Commensalism. --- Common Resource. --- Common species. --- Community structure. --- Competition. --- Consumer. --- Correlation does not imply causation. --- Cuisine. --- Density dependence. --- Disenchantment. --- Ecosystem. --- Environmental gradient. --- Eutrophication. --- Extinction debt. --- Fecundity. --- Food chain. --- Food web. --- Foraging. --- Functional response. --- Genetic drift. --- Habitat fragmentation. --- Herbivore. --- Heterotroph. --- Hydra effect. --- Ideal free distribution. --- Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis. --- Interspecific competition. --- Intraguild predation. --- Intraspecific competition. --- Invasive species. --- Isocline. --- Job security. --- Key demographic. --- Keystone species. --- Limit cycle. --- Limiting factor. --- Local extinction. --- Lotka–Volterra equations. --- Metacommunity. --- Metapopulation. --- Mixed economy. --- Model organism. --- Mortality rate. --- Mutualism (biology). --- Natural selection. --- Niche differentiation. --- Nutrient. --- Observational study. --- Omnivore. --- Optimal foraging theory. --- Overexploitation. --- Pairwise comparison. --- Paradox of enrichment. --- Paradox of the plankton. --- Parasitism. --- Pathogen. --- Pest control. --- Phenotypic trait. --- Phytoplankton. --- Population cycle. --- Population dynamics. --- Population growth. --- Pragmatism. --- Predation. --- Predator satiation. --- Price controls. --- Priority effect. --- Quadrat. --- Racial segregation. --- Racism. --- Ranking (information retrieval). --- Resource depletion. --- Speciation (genetic algorithm). --- Species complex. --- Species diversity. --- Species richness. --- Storage effect. --- Subsidy. --- Superiority (short story). --- Theoretical ecology. --- Trade-off. --- Trophic cascade. --- Trophic level. --- Utilization. --- Vitamin. --- Working hypothesis. --- Zooplankton.