Resolving ecosystem complexity /

An ecosystem's complexity develops from the vast numbers of species interacting in ecological communities. The nature of these interactions, in turn, depends on environmental context. How do these components together influence an ecosystem's behavior as a whole? Can ecologists resolve an e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmitz, Oswald J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Monographs in population biology ; 44.
Temas:
Biotic communities.
Ecosystem management.
Biodiversity conservation.
Écosystèmes > Gestion.
Biodiversité > Conservation.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
NATURE > Ecology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Conceptualizing ecosystem structure
  • Trophic dynamics: why is the world green?
  • The green world and the brown chain
  • The evolutionary ecology of trophic control in ecosystems
  • The whole and the parts
  • The ecological theater and the evolutionary ecological play.

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