Includes bibliographical references and index.

Topology of ecological interaction networks: the state of the art / Owen L. Petchey, Peter J. Morin and Han Olff -- Trophic dynamics of communities / Herman A. Verhoef and Han Olff -- Modelling the dynamics of complex food webs / Ulrich Brose and Jennifer A. Dunne -- Community assembly dynamics in space / Tadashi Fukami -- Increasing spatio-temporal scales: metacommunity ecology / Jonathan M. Chase and Janne Bengtsson -- Spatio-temporal structure in soil communities and ecosystem processes / Matty P. Berg -- Applications of community ecology approaches in terrestrial ecosystems: local problems, remote causes / Wim H. van der Putten -- Sea changes: structure and functioning of emerging marine communities / J. Emmett Duffy -- Applied (meta)community ecology: diversity and ecosystem services at the intersection of local and regional processes / Janne Bengtsson -- Community ecology and management of salt marshes / Jan P. Bakker, Dries P.J. Kuijper and Julia Stahl -- Evolutionary processes in community ecology / Kothamasi, E. Toby Kiers and Marcel G.A. van der Heijden -- Emerging frontiers of community ecology / Peter J. Morin.