Assembly Rules

The term Assembly Rules includes an ecological theory of American Biogeographen Jared Diamond. Assembly Rules can be transmitted in about as " rules of formation ". Diamond thus describes a rule-based understanding of communities in which there is a competition for biotic resources. This approach can be statistically proven and tested and scrutinized for example, with the null hypothesis.

After that, for example, one rule: " The Forbidden combinations of species ." For example closes the occurrence of sadness honeyeater ( Certhionyx niger) from the nectar of the silk bird ( Myzomela pammelaena ). The funeral Honeyeater lives in 23 of 41 surveyed islands of Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, on the other 14 islands survived the Silk Sunbird. Both birds have many similar physiological properties (eg size) and both have a curved beak to drink nectar. Diamond found that the competition effects influenced the distribution. Diamonds hypothesis was that the competition and not irregular immigration was the driving force behind the distribution of the species on the islands.

Since the 1990s, Assembly Rules are increasingly being used in nature conservation.