01152naa a2200265 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000180006024500640007826000090014252004180015165300200056965300190058965300210060865300150062965300160064465300260066065300370068665300270072365300320075065300200078265300170080270000190081977300480083817947811999-03-26       1979    bl ---       0--  u    #d1 aCONNOR, E. F.  aThe assembly of species communitiesbchance or competition?  c1979  aWe challenge Diamond's (1975) idea that island distributions are determined predominantly by competition as canonized by his "assembly rules". We show that every assembly rule is either tautological, trivial, or a pattern expected were species distributed at random. In order to falsify a null hypothesis stating that the distributions are generated by species randomly and individually colonizing an archipelago.  aAssembleia rege  aAssembly rules  aBird communities  aCompeticao  aCompetition  aComunidade de passaro  aDistribuicao de especies de ilha  aExclusive distribution  aIsland species distribution  aPar de especies  aSpecies pair1 aSIMBERLOFF, D.  tEcologygv.60, n.6, p.1132-1140, Dec. 1979.