Food webs
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Princeton
Princeton University Press
[2012]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Monographs in population biology
50 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- "Human impacts are dramatically altering our natural ecosystems. The implications of these human impacts on the sustainability and functioning of these amazingly complex entities remains uncertain. As a result, food web theory has experienced a proliferation of research that seeks to address this critical area. This book synthesizes modern and classical results into a general theory. Finally, this book takes this general theoretical framework and discusses the implications of human impact for the stability and sustainability of ecological systems"--
- pt. 1. The problem and the approach. The balance of nature: what is it and why care?
- A primer for dynamical systems
- Of modules, motifs, and whole webs
- pt. 2. Food web modules: from populations to small food webs. Excitable and nonexcitable population dynamics
- Consumer-resource dynamics: building consumptive food webs
- Lagged consumer-resource dynamics
- Food chains and omnivory
- More modules
- pt. 3. Toward whole systems. Coupling modules in space: a landscape theory
- Classic food web theory
- Adding the ecosystem
- Food webs as complex adaptive systems