Preface
1: Introduction
2: Definitions, models, and on how to measure the existence of
interspecific competition
3: Space as a limiting resource
4: Food as a limiting resource
5: Nest sites as a limiting resource
6: The effect of intraspecific competition on population
processes
7: Studies of foraging niches and food
8: Field experiments to test the existence and effects of
interspecific competition
9: Long-term experiments on competition between great and blue
tit
10: Evolutionary effects of interspecific competition
11: Concluding thoughts
Appendices
References
Index
André Dhondt is the Edwin H. Morgens Professor of Ornithology at
Cornell University. He studied biology at Ghent State University
where he obtained his Ph.D. After working for F.A.O. in Madagascar
and Western Samoa, he returned to his native Belgium to teach at
the newly founded Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, part of
Antwerp University. In Antwerp he developed an active research
group in population and behavioural ecology and started his
long-term
field experiments on interspecific competition between great and
blue tits. He was a visiting professor in Zaire (now Congo),
Algeria and Paris. He moved to the Laboratory of Ornithology at
Cornell University in
1994 where he explored the effects of a newly emerged disease on
house finches across North America. He has published more than 250
papers and book chapters and has co-edited a book on Dispersal. He
is a member of the Academiae Europaeae and many ornithological and
ecological societies.
An excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone studying the Aves.
Reading it is almost like listening to a series of clear and
well-prepared lectures. The work has broad relevance; seeing it
just as an ornithology resource would be to do it a disservice.
*Trends in Ecology and Evolution*
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