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Dynamic Food Webs
Author | : Peter C de Ruiter,Volkmar Wolters,John C Moore |
Publsiher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2005-12-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0080460941 |
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Dynamic Food Webs challenges us to rethink what factors may determine ecological and evolutionary pathways of food web development. It touches upon the intriguing idea that trophic interactions drive patterns and dynamics at different levels of biological organization: dynamics in species composition, dynamics in population life-history parameters and abundances, and dynamics in individual growth, size and behavior. These dynamics are shown to be strongly interrelated governing food web structure and stability and the role of populations and communities play in ecosystem functioning. Dynamic Food Webs not only offers over 100 illustrations, but also contains 8 riveting sections devoted to an understanding of how to manage the effects of environmental change, the protection of biological diversity and the sustainable use of natural resources. Dynamic Food Webs is a volume in the Theoretical Ecology series. Relates dynamics on different levels of biological organization: individuals, populations, and communities Deals with empirical and theoretical approaches Discusses the role of community food webs in ecosystem functioning Proposes methods to assess the effects of environmental change on the structure of biological communities and ecosystem functioning Offers an analyses of the relationship between complexity and stability in food webs
Dynamic Food Webs
Author | : Peter Cornelis De Ruiter,Volkmar Wolters,John C. Moore |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0120884585 |
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Dynamic Food Webs challenges us to rethink what factors may determine ecological and evolutionary pathways of food web development. It touches upon the intriguing idea that trophic interactions drive patterns and dynamics at different levels of biological organization: dynamics in species composition, dynamics in population life-history parameters and abundances, and dynamics in individual growth, size and behavior. These dynamics are shown to be strongly interrelated governing food web structure and stability and the role of populations and communities play in ecosystem functioning. Dyanmic Food Webs not only offers over 100 illustrations, but also contains 8 riveting sections devoted to an understanding of how to manage the effects of environmental change, the protection of biological diversity and the sustainable use of natural resources. Dyanmic Food Webs is a volume in the Theoretical Ecology series. * Relates dynamics on different levels of biological organization: individuals, populations, and communities * Deals with empirical and theoretical approaches * Discusses the role of community food webs in ecosystem functioning * Proposes methods to assess the effects of environmental change on the structure of biological communities and ecosystem functioning * Offers an analyses of the relationship between complexity and stability in food webs
Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs
Author | : Donald L. DeAngelis |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789401123426 |
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In all fields of science today, data are collected and theories are developed and published faster than scientists can keep up with, let alone thoroughly digest. In ecology the fact that practitioners tend to be divided between such subdisciplines as aquatic and terrestrial ecology, as well as between popula tion, community, and ecosystem ecology, makes it even harder for them to keep up with all relevant research. Ecologists specializing in one sub discipline are not always aware of progress in another subdiscipline that relates to their own. Syntheses are frequently needed that pull together large bodies of information and organize them in ways that makes them more coherent, and thus more understandable. I have tried to perform this task of integration for the subject area that encompasses the interrelationships between the dynamics of ecological food webs and the cycling of nutrients. I believe this area cuts across many of the subdisciplines of ecology and is pivotal to our progress in understanding ecosystems and in dealing with human impacts on the environment. Many current ecological problems involve human disturbances of both food webs and the nutrients that cycle through them. Little progress can be made towards elucidating the complex feedback relations inherent in the study of nutrient cycles in ecological systems without the tools of mathematics and computer modelling. These tools are therefore liberally used throughout the book.
Food Webs at the Landscape Level
Author | : Gary A. Polis,Mary E. Power,Gary R. Huxel |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2004-02-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226673271 |
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Paying special attention to the fertile boundaries between terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, this work shows not only what this new methodology means for ecology, conservation, and agriculture but also serves as a fitting tribute to Gary Polis and his major contributions to the field
Food Webs
Author | : John C. Moore,Peter C. de Ruiter,Kevin S. McCann,Volkmar Wolters |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781107182110 |
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This book presents new approaches to studying food webs, using practical and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem management decisions.
Energetic Food Webs
Author | : John C. Moore,Peter C. de Ruiter |
Publsiher | : Oxford Ecology and Evolution |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780198566199 |
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In ecosystems with many species, food webs form highly complex networks of resource-consumer interactions. At the same time, the food web as itself needs sufficient resources to develop and survive. So in fact, food web ecology is about how natural resources form the basis of biological communities, in terms of species richness and abundances as well as how species are organised in communities on the basis of the resource availability and use. The central theme of this book is that patterns in the utilisation of energy result from the trophic interactions among species, and that these patterns form the basis of ecosystem stability. The authors integrate the latest work on community dynamics, ecosystem energetics, and stability, and in so doing attempt to dispel the categorisation of the field into the separate subdisciplines of population, community, and ecosystem ecology. Energetic Food Webs represents the first attempt to bridge the gap between the energetic and species approaches to ecology.
From Populations to Ecosystems
Author | : Michel Loreau |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781400834167 |
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The major subdisciplines of ecology--population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and evolutionary ecology--have diverged increasingly in recent decades. What is critically needed today is an integrated, real-world approach to ecology that reflects the interdependency of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. From Populations to Ecosystems proposes an innovative theoretical synthesis that will enable us to advance our fundamental understanding of ecological systems and help us to respond to today's emerging global ecological crisis. Michel Loreau begins by explaining how the principles of population dynamics and ecosystem functioning can be merged. He then addresses key issues in the study of biodiversity and ecosystems, such as functional complementarity, food webs, stability and complexity, material cycling, and metacommunities. Loreau describes the most recent theoretical advances that link the properties of individual populations to the aggregate properties of communities, and the properties of functional groups or trophic levels to the functioning of whole ecosystems, placing special emphasis on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Finally, he turns his attention to the controversial issue of the evolution of entire ecosystems and their properties, laying the theoretical foundations for a genuine evolutionary ecosystem ecology. From Populations to Ecosystems points the way to a much-needed synthesis in ecology, one that offers a fuller understanding of ecosystem processes in the natural world.
Food Webs
Author | : Gary A. Polis,Kirk O. Winemiller |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822020635645 |
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In-depth overview of the most recent advancements in food-web research. Integrates theory, basic empirical research and applications to resource problems