xi 432 pages, includes indexand bibliography. The book has been coveredin contact and there is an ownership signature on the half title page, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy." Consists of: 1) historical perspective to the development of modern concepts; 2) the methodologies relevant to defining natural communities; 3) structural and functional patterns seen in the horizontal and vertical organisation of communities; 4) ecological processes which contribute to the organisation of communities; and 5) evolutionary processes which contribute to that organisation.-J.Sheail " (Uni. Queensland) "This multi-author text has been planned as a companion to the successful volumes on theoretical ecology, behavioural ecology and physiological ecology mentioned elsewhere in this catalogue. The editors have covered the main approaches in community ecology. " (web)