LEADER 03449nam 2200469Ia 450 001 9910820316703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-011-2342-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-011-2342-6 035 $a(CKB)3400000000122177 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-011-2342-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3069605 035 $a(EXLCZ)993400000000122177 100 $a19910320d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDynamics of nutrient cycling and food webs /$fD.L. DeAngelis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cChapman & Hall$d1992 215 $a1 online resource (288 p. 3 illus.) 225 0 $aPopulation and community biology series ;$v9 311 $a0-412-29840-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-265) and index. 327 $a1 Introduction -- 2 General concepts of nutrient flux and stability -- 3 Nutrients and autotrophs -- 4 Nutrients and autotrophs: variable internal nutrient levels -- 5 Effects of nutrients on autotroph-herbivore interactions -- 6 Herbivores and nutrient recycling -- 7 Nutrient interactions of detritus and decomposers -- 8 Nutrient limitation and food webs -- 9 Competition and nutrients -- 10 Temporally varying driving forces and nutrient-limited food webs -- 11 Effects of spatial extent -- 12 Implications for global change -- Appendices -- References. 330 $aIn all fields of science today, data are collected and theories are developed and published faster than scientists can keep up with, let alone thoroughly digest. In ecology the fact that practitioners tend to be divided between such subdisciplines as aquatic and terrestrial ecology, as well as between popula­ tion, community, and ecosystem ecology, makes it even harder for them to keep up with all relevant research. Ecologists specializing in one sub­ discipline are not always aware of progress in another subdiscipline that relates to their own. Syntheses are frequently needed that pull together large bodies of information and organize them in ways that makes them more coherent, and thus more understandable. I have tried to perform this task of integration for the subject area that encompasses the interrelationships between the dynamics of ecological food webs and the cycling of nutrients. I believe this area cuts across many of the subdisciplines of ecology and is pivotal to our progress in understanding ecosystems and in dealing with human impacts on the environment. Many current ecological problems involve human disturbances of both food webs and the nutrients that cycle through them. Little progress can be made towards elucidating the complex feedback relations inherent in the study of nutrient cycles in ecological systems without the tools of mathematics and computer modelling. These tools are therefore liberally used throughout the book. 410 0$aPopulation and Community Biology Series ;$v9 606 $aNutrient cycles 606 $aFood chains (Ecology) 615 0$aNutrient cycles. 615 0$aFood chains (Ecology) 676 $a574.5/3 700 $aDeAngelis$b D. L$g(Donald Lee),$f1944-$01749982 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820316703321 996 $aDynamics of nutrient cycling and food webs$94184470 997 $aUNINA