Marcel Holyoak is professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. Mathew A. Leibold is professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas. Robert D. Holt is professor of ecology at the University of Florida.

"The editors have done an excellent job organizing a volume in which readers can be supplied with solid theoretical and applied concepts while considering communities as opened entities. There is an excellent balance between theory and application." - Pedro Peres-Neto, University of Regina, Canada"

Marcel Holyoak is professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. Mathew A. Leibold is professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas. Robert D. Holt is professor of ecology at the University of Florida.

"The editors have done an excellent job organizing a volume in which readers can be supplied with solid theoretical and applied concepts while considering communities as opened entities. There is an excellent balance between theory and application." - Pedro Peres-Neto, University of Regina, Canada"

Marcel Holyoak is professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. Mathew A. Leibold is professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas. Robert D. Holt is professor of ecology at the University of Florida.

"The editors have done an excellent job organizing a volume in which readers can be supplied with solid theoretical and applied concepts while considering communities as opened entities. There is an excellent balance between theory and application." - Pedro Peres-Neto, University of Regina, Canada"