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Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs /

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 betwe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeAngelis, D. L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer, 1992.
Colección:Population and community biology series ; 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 General concepts of nutrient flux and stability
  • 3 Nutrients and autotrophs
  • 4 Nutrients and autotrophs: variable internal nutrient levels
  • 5 Effects of nutrients on autotroph-herbivore interactions
  • 6 Herbivores and nutrient recycling
  • 7 Nutrient interactions of detritus and decomposers
  • 8 Nutrient limitation and food webs
  • 9 Competition and nutrients
  • 10 Temporally varying driving forces and nutrient-limited food webs
  • 11 Effects of spatial extent
  • 12 Implications for global change
  • Appendices
  • References.