Smith, B. 1996. Community-level Convergence and Community Structure of Temperate Nothofagus Forests. Ph.D. thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

PDF of entire thesis as an e-book with active table of contents

PDFs of individual chapters:

• Abstract, Acknowledgements, Table of contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Methodology for data collection
• Chapter 3. Study sites and their environments
• Chapter 4. Interrelationships and vertical trends for species characters
• Chapter 5. Convergence and divergence in species richness
• Chapter 6. Convergence in community texture means
• Chapter 7. Convergence in community texture distributions
• Chapter 8. Convergence in mean-adjusted distributions
• Chapter 9. Convergence in derived texture factors
• Chapter 10. Convergence in height guilds
• Chapter 11. Character overdispersion as evidence for assembly rules
• Chapter 12. General discussion
• References
• Appendix A. Species character data