Food Webs (MPB-50) / / Kevin S. McCann.
Human impacts are dramatically altering our natural ecosystems but the exact repercussions on ecological sustainability and function remain unclear. As a result, food web theory has experienced a proliferation of research seeking to address these critical areas. Arguing that the various recent and c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in Population Biology ;
50 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 21 halftones. 56 line illus. 2 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1. The Problem and the Approach
- CHAPTER ONE. The Balance of Nature: What Is It and Why Care?
- CHAPTER TWO. A Primer for Dynamical Systems
- CHAPTER THREE. Of Modules, Motifs, and Whole Webs
- Part 2. Food Web Modules: From Populations to Small Food Webs
- CHAPTER FOUR. Excitable and Nonexcitable Population Dynamics
- CHAPTER FIVE. Consumer-Resource Dynamics: Building Consumptive Food Webs
- CHAPTER SIX. Lagged Consumer-Resource Dynamics
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Food Chains and Omnivory
- CHAPTER EIGHT. More Modules
- Part 3. Toward Whole Systems
- CHAPTER NINE. Coupling Modules in Space: A Landscape Theory
- CHAPTER TEN. Classic Food Web Theory
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Adding the Ecosystem
- CHAPTER TWELVE. Food Webs as Complex Adaptive Systems
- Bibliography
- Index