Food webs /

"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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McCann, Kevin S. (Kevin Shear), 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Series:Monographs in population biology ; 50.
Subjects:
Food chains (Ecology)
Biotic communities.
Chaînes alimentaires (Écologie)
NATURE > Ecology.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Biotic communities
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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