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McCann 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (389 p.) 225 1 $aMonographs in population biology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-13417-0 311 0 $a0-691-13418-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tPart 1. The Problem and the Approach --$tCHAPTER ONE. The Balance of Nature: What Is It and Why Care? --$tCHAPTER TWO. A Primer for Dynamical Systems --$tCHAPTER THREE. Of Modules, Motifs, and Whole Webs --$tPart 2. Food Web Modules: From Populations to Small Food Webs --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Excitable and Nonexcitable Population Dynamics --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Consumer-Resource Dynamics: Building Consumptive Food Webs --$tCHAPTER SIX. Lagged Consumer-Resource Dynamics --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Food Chains and Omnivory --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. More Modules --$tPart 3. Toward Whole Systems --$tCHAPTER NINE. Coupling Modules in Space: A Landscape Theory --$tCHAPTER TEN. Classic Food Web Theory --$tCHAPTER ELEVEN. Adding the Ecosystem --$tCHAPTER TWELVE. Food Webs as Complex Adaptive Systems --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aHuman impacts are dramatically altering our natural ecosystems but the exact repercussions on ecological sustainability and function remain unclear. As a result, food web theory has experienced a proliferation of research seeking to address these critical areas. Arguing that the various recent and classical food web theories can be looked at collectively and in a highly consistent and testable way, Food Webs synthesizes and reconciles modern and classical perspectives into a general unified theory. Kevin McCann brings together outcomes from population-, community-, and ecosystem-level approaches under the common currency of energy or material fluxes. He shows that these approaches--often studied in isolation--all have the same general implications in terms of population dynamic stability. Specifically, increased fluxes of energy or material tend to destabilize populations, communities, and whole ecosystems. With this understanding, stabilizing structures at different levels of the ecological hierarchy can be identified and any population-, community-, or ecosystem-level structures that mute energy or material flow also stabilize systems dynamics. McCann uses this powerful general framework to discuss the effects of human impact on the stability and sustainability of ecological systems, and he demonstrates that there is clear empirical evidence that the structures supporting ecological systems have been dangerously eroded. Uniting the latest research on food webs with classical theories, this book will be a standard source in the understanding of natural food web functions. 410 0$aMonographs in population biology. 606 $aFood chains (Ecology) 606 $aBiotic communities 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aCanadian Shield. 610 $aGershgorin discs. 610 $aHopf bifurcation. 610 $aRobert Holt. 610 $aadaptive behavior. 610 $aalternative stable states. 610 $aaquatic microcosm. 610 $aasynchrony. 610 $abifurcation. 610 $abird feeder effect. 610 $abody size. 610 $acompetition. 610 $aconsumers. 610 $aconsumer?esource dynamics. 610 $aconsumer?esource interactions. 610 $aconsumer?esource models. 610 $aconsumer?esource theory. 610 $acontinuous logistic growth models. 610 $adetritus. 610 $adiamond food web. 610 $adiscrete equations. 610 $adynamical systems theory. 610 $adynamical systems. 610 $aecological instability. 610 $aecological stability. 610 $aecological systems. 610 $aecosystem collapse. 610 $aecosystem dynamics. 610 $aecosystem size. 610 $aecosystem stability. 610 $aecosystems. 610 $aeigenvalue. 610 $aequilibrium steady state. 610 $aequilibrium. 610 $aexcitable interactions. 610 $afood chains. 610 $afood web structure. 610 $afood web theory. 610 $afood webs. 610 $aforaging. 610 $ageneralism. 610 $ageneralists. 610 $agrazing. 610 $ahabitat. 610 $ahuman impacts. 610 $ainteraction strength. 610 $aintraguild predation model. 610 $alags. 610 $alake trout. 610 $alocal stability analysis. 610 $amatrix theory. 610 $amicrocosm experiments. 610 $amobile adaptive predators. 610 $amodular theory. 610 $amodule. 610 $amotif. 610 $anatural ecosystems. 610 $anature. 610 $anonequilibrium dynamics. 610 $anonequilibrium steady state. 610 $anonexcitable interactions. 610 $anutrient decomposition. 610 $anutrient recycling. 610 $anutrients. 610 $aomnivory. 610 $aoscillation. 610 $aoscillatory decay. 610 $aphase space. 610 $apopulation dynamics. 610 $apopulation growth. 610 $apopulation models. 610 $apopulation structure. 610 $apopulations. 610 $aresources. 610 $aspace. 610 $aspecies. 610 $astage structure. 610 $astage-structured lags. 610 $asubsidies. 610 $asubsystems. 610 $asustainability. 610 $atime series. 610 $atrade-offs. 610 $atraits. 610 $awhole-community approach. 610 $awhole-system matrix. 615 0$aFood chains (Ecology) 615 0$aBiotic communities. 676 $a577/.16 700 $aMcCann$b Kevin S$g(Kevin Shear),$f1964-$01040981 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461569803321 996 $aFood webs$92464221 997 $aUNINA