Resolving Ecosystem Complexity (MPB-47) / / Oswald J. Schmitz.

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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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Monographs in Population Biology ; 47
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 32 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction
  • CHAPTER 2. Conceptualizing Ecosystem Structure
  • CHAPTER 3. Trophic Dynamics: Why Is the World Green?
  • CHAPTER 4. The Green World and the Brown Chain
  • CHAPTER 5. The Evolutionary Ecology of Trophic Control in Ecosystems
  • CHAPTER 6. The Whole and the Parts
  • CHAPTER 7. The Ecological Theater and the Evolutionary Ecological Play
  • Closing Remarks
  • References
  • Index
  • Monographs in Population Biology