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Community Ecology, BIOL 7083, Fall 2007 Louisiana State University – Department of Biological Sciences Reading list for in-class discussion: Discussion 1 Karlson, Ronald H., Howard V. Cornell & Terence P. Hughes. 2004. Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradient. Nature 429:867-870. Wright, Justin P., Alexander S. Flecker & Clive G. Jones. 2003. Local vs. landscape controls on plant species richness in beaver meadows. Ecology 84:3162-3173. Discussion 2 Brown, James H. & Diane W. Davidson. 1977. Competition between seed-eating rodents and ants in desert ecosystems. Science 196:880-882. Pacala, Stephen & Jonathan Roughgarden. 1982. Resource partitioning and interspecific competition in two two-species insular Anolis lizard communities. Science 217:444-446. Petren, Kenneth, Douglas T. Bolger & Ted J. Case. 1993. Mechanisms in the competitive success of an invading sexual gecko species over an asexual native. Science 259:354-358. Discussion 3 Dyer, L. 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