Food webs / Kevin S. McCann.

By:

McCann, Kevin S. (Kevin Shear), 1964- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Monographs in population biology ; 50.Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781400840687
1400840686

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Food webs.DDC classification:

577/.16 23

LOC classification:

QH541 .M23 2012eb

Other classification:

SCI020000 | SCI008000

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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.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.