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Dynamic food webs [[electronic resource] ] : multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change / / [editors], Peter de Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters, John C. Moore
Dynamic food webs [[electronic resource] ] : multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change / / [editors], Peter de Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters, John C. Moore
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Academic Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (616 p.)
Disciplina 577.16
Altri autori (Persone) De RuiterPeter Cornelis <1952->
WoltersVolkmar
MooreJohn C (John Christopher)
Collana Theoretical ecology series
Soggetto topico Food chains (Ecology)
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-280-63326-3
9786610633265
0-08-046094-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto front cover; copyright; table of contents; front matter; Contributors; body; 1.0 | TRIBUTE; 1.1 | DYNAMIC FOOD WEBS; 1.2 | FOOD WEB SCIENCE: MOVING ON THE PATH FROM ABSTRACTION TO PREDICTION; 2.0 | VARIATIONS IN COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE AS STABILIZING MECHANISMS OF FOOD WEBS; 2.1 | FROM FOOD WEBS TO ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS: LINKING NON-LINEAR TROPHIC INTERACTIONS WITH NUTRIENT COMPETITION; 2.2 | FOOD WEB ARCHITECTURE AND ITS EFFECTS ON CONSUMER RESOURCE OSCILLATIONS IN EXPERIMENTAL POND ECOSYSTEMS; 2.3 | FOOD WEB STRUCTURE: FROM SCALE INVARIANCE TO SCALE DEPENDENCE, AND BACK AGAIN?
2.4 | THE ROLE OF SPACE, TIME, AND VARIABILITY IN FOOD WEB DYNAMICS 3.0 | POPULATION DYNAMICS AND FOOD WEBS: DRIFTING AWAY FROM THE LOTKA-VOLTERRA PARADIGM; 3.1 | MODELLING EVOLVING FOOD WEBS; 3.2 | THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ON THE STRUCTURE OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES; 3.3 | LINKING FLEXIBLE FOOD WEB STRUCTURE TO POPULATION STABILITY: A THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION ON ADAPTIVE FOOD WEBS; 3.4 | INDUCIBLE DEFENSES IN FOOD WEBS; 4.0 | WEARING ELTON'S WELLINGTONS: WHY BODY SIZE STILL MATTERS IN FOOD WEBS
4.1 | SPECIES' AVERAGE BODY MASS AND NUMERICAL ABUNDANCE IN A COMMUNITY FOOD WEB: STATISTICAL QUESTIONS IN ESTIMATING THE RELATIONSHIP 4.2 | BODY SIZE SCALINGS AND THE DYNAMICS OF ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; 4.3 | BODY SIZE, INTERACTION STRENGTH, AND FOOD WEB DYNAMICS; 4.4 | BODY SIZE DETERMINANTS OF THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS: SCALING FROM THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE ECOSYSTEM; 5.0 | UNDERSTANDING THE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE DYNAMICS OF FOOD WEBS, RESOURCES, AND NUTRIENTS; 5.1 | VARIABILITY IN SOIL FOOD WEB STRUCTURE ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
5.2 | FUNCTIONAL ROLES OF LEAF LITTER DETRITUS IN TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEBS 5.3 | STABILITY AND INTERACTION STRENGTH WITHIN SOIL FOOD WEBS OF A EUROPEAN FOREST TRANSECT: THE IMPACT OF N DEPOSITION; 5.4 | DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF CONSUMERS ON C, N, AND P DYNAMICS: INSIGHTS FROM LONG-TERM RESEARCH; 5.5 | MEASURING THE ABILITY OF FOOD TO FUEL WORK IN ECOSYSTEMS; 5.6 | TOWARDS A NEW GENERATION OF DYNAMICAL SOIL DECOMPOSER FOOD WEB MODELS; 6.0 | FOOD WEBS, BIODIVERSITY, AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; 6.1 | FOOD WEBS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING
6.2 | BIODIVERSITY, FOOD WEB STRUCTURE, AND THE PARTITIONING OF BIOMASS WITHIN AND AMONG TROPHIC LEVELS 6.3 | TROPHIC POSITION, BIOTIC CONTEXT, AND ABIOTIC FACTORS DETERMINE SPECIES CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; 6.4 | DOES BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY RELATE TO FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTES OF SOIL FOOD WEBS?; 6.5 | DIVERSITY, PRODUCTIVITY, AND INVASIBILITY RELATIONSHIPS IN ROCK POOL FOOD WEBS; 6.6 | MEASURING THE FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF FOOD WEBS; 7.0 | TRACING PERTURBATION EFFECTS IN FOOD WEBS: THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITATION OF EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES
7.1 | INSIGHT INTO POLLUTION EFFECTS IN COMPLEX RIVERINE HABITATS: A ROLE FOR FOOD WEB EXPERIMENTS
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Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Academic Press, c2005
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Dynamic food webs [[electronic resource] ] : multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change / / [editors], Peter de Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters, John C. Moore
Dynamic food webs [[electronic resource] ] : multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change / / [editors], Peter de Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters, John C. Moore
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Academic Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (616 p.)
Disciplina 577.16
Altri autori (Persone) De RuiterPeter Cornelis <1952->
WoltersVolkmar
MooreJohn C (John Christopher)
Collana Theoretical ecology series
Soggetto topico Food chains (Ecology)
ISBN 1-280-63326-3
9786610633265
0-08-046094-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto front cover; copyright; table of contents; front matter; Contributors; body; 1.0 | TRIBUTE; 1.1 | DYNAMIC FOOD WEBS; 1.2 | FOOD WEB SCIENCE: MOVING ON THE PATH FROM ABSTRACTION TO PREDICTION; 2.0 | VARIATIONS IN COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE AS STABILIZING MECHANISMS OF FOOD WEBS; 2.1 | FROM FOOD WEBS TO ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS: LINKING NON-LINEAR TROPHIC INTERACTIONS WITH NUTRIENT COMPETITION; 2.2 | FOOD WEB ARCHITECTURE AND ITS EFFECTS ON CONSUMER RESOURCE OSCILLATIONS IN EXPERIMENTAL POND ECOSYSTEMS; 2.3 | FOOD WEB STRUCTURE: FROM SCALE INVARIANCE TO SCALE DEPENDENCE, AND BACK AGAIN?
2.4 | THE ROLE OF SPACE, TIME, AND VARIABILITY IN FOOD WEB DYNAMICS 3.0 | POPULATION DYNAMICS AND FOOD WEBS: DRIFTING AWAY FROM THE LOTKA-VOLTERRA PARADIGM; 3.1 | MODELLING EVOLVING FOOD WEBS; 3.2 | THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ON THE STRUCTURE OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES; 3.3 | LINKING FLEXIBLE FOOD WEB STRUCTURE TO POPULATION STABILITY: A THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION ON ADAPTIVE FOOD WEBS; 3.4 | INDUCIBLE DEFENSES IN FOOD WEBS; 4.0 | WEARING ELTON'S WELLINGTONS: WHY BODY SIZE STILL MATTERS IN FOOD WEBS
4.1 | SPECIES' AVERAGE BODY MASS AND NUMERICAL ABUNDANCE IN A COMMUNITY FOOD WEB: STATISTICAL QUESTIONS IN ESTIMATING THE RELATIONSHIP 4.2 | BODY SIZE SCALINGS AND THE DYNAMICS OF ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; 4.3 | BODY SIZE, INTERACTION STRENGTH, AND FOOD WEB DYNAMICS; 4.4 | BODY SIZE DETERMINANTS OF THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS: SCALING FROM THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE ECOSYSTEM; 5.0 | UNDERSTANDING THE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE DYNAMICS OF FOOD WEBS, RESOURCES, AND NUTRIENTS; 5.1 | VARIABILITY IN SOIL FOOD WEB STRUCTURE ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
5.2 | FUNCTIONAL ROLES OF LEAF LITTER DETRITUS IN TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEBS 5.3 | STABILITY AND INTERACTION STRENGTH WITHIN SOIL FOOD WEBS OF A EUROPEAN FOREST TRANSECT: THE IMPACT OF N DEPOSITION; 5.4 | DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF CONSUMERS ON C, N, AND P DYNAMICS: INSIGHTS FROM LONG-TERM RESEARCH; 5.5 | MEASURING THE ABILITY OF FOOD TO FUEL WORK IN ECOSYSTEMS; 5.6 | TOWARDS A NEW GENERATION OF DYNAMICAL SOIL DECOMPOSER FOOD WEB MODELS; 6.0 | FOOD WEBS, BIODIVERSITY, AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; 6.1 | FOOD WEBS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING
6.2 | BIODIVERSITY, FOOD WEB STRUCTURE, AND THE PARTITIONING OF BIOMASS WITHIN AND AMONG TROPHIC LEVELS 6.3 | TROPHIC POSITION, BIOTIC CONTEXT, AND ABIOTIC FACTORS DETERMINE SPECIES CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; 6.4 | DOES BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY RELATE TO FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTES OF SOIL FOOD WEBS?; 6.5 | DIVERSITY, PRODUCTIVITY, AND INVASIBILITY RELATIONSHIPS IN ROCK POOL FOOD WEBS; 6.6 | MEASURING THE FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF FOOD WEBS; 7.0 | TRACING PERTURBATION EFFECTS IN FOOD WEBS: THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITATION OF EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES
7.1 | INSIGHT INTO POLLUTION EFFECTS IN COMPLEX RIVERINE HABITATS: A ROLE FOR FOOD WEB EXPERIMENTS
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Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Academic Press, c2005
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Dynamic food webs : multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change / / [editors], Peter de Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters, John C. Moore
Dynamic food webs : multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change / / [editors], Peter de Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters, John C. Moore
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Academic Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (616 p.)
Disciplina 577.16
Altri autori (Persone) De RuiterPeter Cornelis <1952->
WoltersVolkmar
MooreJohn C (John Christopher)
Collana Theoretical ecology series
Soggetto topico Food chains (Ecology)
ISBN 1-280-63326-3
9786610633265
0-08-046094-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto front cover; copyright; table of contents; front matter; Contributors; body; 1.0 | TRIBUTE; 1.1 | DYNAMIC FOOD WEBS; 1.2 | FOOD WEB SCIENCE: MOVING ON THE PATH FROM ABSTRACTION TO PREDICTION; 2.0 | VARIATIONS IN COMMUNITY ARCHITECTURE AS STABILIZING MECHANISMS OF FOOD WEBS; 2.1 | FROM FOOD WEBS TO ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS: LINKING NON-LINEAR TROPHIC INTERACTIONS WITH NUTRIENT COMPETITION; 2.2 | FOOD WEB ARCHITECTURE AND ITS EFFECTS ON CONSUMER RESOURCE OSCILLATIONS IN EXPERIMENTAL POND ECOSYSTEMS; 2.3 | FOOD WEB STRUCTURE: FROM SCALE INVARIANCE TO SCALE DEPENDENCE, AND BACK AGAIN?
2.4 | THE ROLE OF SPACE, TIME, AND VARIABILITY IN FOOD WEB DYNAMICS 3.0 | POPULATION DYNAMICS AND FOOD WEBS: DRIFTING AWAY FROM THE LOTKA-VOLTERRA PARADIGM; 3.1 | MODELLING EVOLVING FOOD WEBS; 3.2 | THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ON THE STRUCTURE OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES; 3.3 | LINKING FLEXIBLE FOOD WEB STRUCTURE TO POPULATION STABILITY: A THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION ON ADAPTIVE FOOD WEBS; 3.4 | INDUCIBLE DEFENSES IN FOOD WEBS; 4.0 | WEARING ELTON'S WELLINGTONS: WHY BODY SIZE STILL MATTERS IN FOOD WEBS
4.1 | SPECIES' AVERAGE BODY MASS AND NUMERICAL ABUNDANCE IN A COMMUNITY FOOD WEB: STATISTICAL QUESTIONS IN ESTIMATING THE RELATIONSHIP 4.2 | BODY SIZE SCALINGS AND THE DYNAMICS OF ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; 4.3 | BODY SIZE, INTERACTION STRENGTH, AND FOOD WEB DYNAMICS; 4.4 | BODY SIZE DETERMINANTS OF THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS: SCALING FROM THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE ECOSYSTEM; 5.0 | UNDERSTANDING THE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE DYNAMICS OF FOOD WEBS, RESOURCES, AND NUTRIENTS; 5.1 | VARIABILITY IN SOIL FOOD WEB STRUCTURE ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
5.2 | FUNCTIONAL ROLES OF LEAF LITTER DETRITUS IN TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEBS 5.3 | STABILITY AND INTERACTION STRENGTH WITHIN SOIL FOOD WEBS OF A EUROPEAN FOREST TRANSECT: THE IMPACT OF N DEPOSITION; 5.4 | DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF CONSUMERS ON C, N, AND P DYNAMICS: INSIGHTS FROM LONG-TERM RESEARCH; 5.5 | MEASURING THE ABILITY OF FOOD TO FUEL WORK IN ECOSYSTEMS; 5.6 | TOWARDS A NEW GENERATION OF DYNAMICAL SOIL DECOMPOSER FOOD WEB MODELS; 6.0 | FOOD WEBS, BIODIVERSITY, AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; 6.1 | FOOD WEBS AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING
6.2 | BIODIVERSITY, FOOD WEB STRUCTURE, AND THE PARTITIONING OF BIOMASS WITHIN AND AMONG TROPHIC LEVELS 6.3 | TROPHIC POSITION, BIOTIC CONTEXT, AND ABIOTIC FACTORS DETERMINE SPECIES CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; 6.4 | DOES BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY RELATE TO FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTES OF SOIL FOOD WEBS?; 6.5 | DIVERSITY, PRODUCTIVITY, AND INVASIBILITY RELATIONSHIPS IN ROCK POOL FOOD WEBS; 6.6 | MEASURING THE FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF FOOD WEBS; 7.0 | TRACING PERTURBATION EFFECTS IN FOOD WEBS: THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITATION OF EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES
7.1 | INSIGHT INTO POLLUTION EFFECTS IN COMPLEX RIVERINE HABITATS: A ROLE FOR FOOD WEB EXPERIMENTS
Record Nr. UNINA-9910825801803321
Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Academic Press, c2005
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Energetic Food Webs [[electronic resource] ] : An analysis of real and model ecosystems
Energetic Food Webs [[electronic resource] ] : An analysis of real and model ecosystems
Autore Moore John C
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina 577
577.16
Altri autori (Persone) De RuiterPeter Cornelis <1952->
Collana Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
Soggetto topico Coral reef ecology
Food chains (Ecology)
Science -- Experiments
Science -- Study and teaching
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-283-57702-X
9786613889478
0-19-164641-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Contents; Chapter 1 Approaches to studying food webs; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Traditions in ecology; 1.2.1 The community perspective; 1.2.2 The ecosystem perspective; 1.3 Food webs and traditions in ecology; 1.3.1 Theoretically based food webs; 1.3.2 Empirically based food webs: architecture; 1.3.3 Empirically based food webs: information; 1.3.4 How useful are these descriptions?; 1.4 Bridging perspectives through energetics; 1.4.1 Core concepts and elements; 1.4.2 Comments on our approach to studying food webs; 1.5 An overview of the parts and chapters; 1.6 Summary
Part I: Modeling simple andmultispecies communitiesChapter 2 Models of simple and complex systems; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Model structure and assumptions; 2.3 Stability; 2.4 Simple food chains; 2.5 The dynamics of primary-producer-based and detritus-based models; 2.6 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 3 Connectedness food webs; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Soil food webs; 3.3 The CPER soil food web; 3.4 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 4 Energy flux food webs; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Biomass and physiological parameters; 4.3 Feeding rates and mineralization rates; 4.4 Energy flux descriptions
4.5 Summary and conclusionsChapter 5 Functional webs; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Interaction strengths; 5.3 A functional food web for the CPER; 5.4 Summary and conclusions; Part II: The dynamics and stability of simple and complex communities; Chapter 6 Energetic organization and food web stability; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Energetic organization and stability; 6.3 Distribution of interaction strengths: trophic-level-dependent interaction strengths; 6.4 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 7 Enrichment, trophic structure, and stability; 7.1 Introduction
7.2 Simple primary-producer-based and detritus-based models7.3 Trophic structure and dynamics along a productivity gradient; 7.4 More complex models; 7.5 Connections to real-world productivity; 7.6 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 8 Modeling compartments; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Complexity, diversity, compartments, and stability; 8.3 Defining compartments; 8.4 Approaches to studying compartments; 8.5 The energy channel; 8.6 Energy channels-structure and stability; 8.7 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 9 Productivity, dynamic stability, and species richness; 9.1 Introduction
9.2 Trophic structure, dynamics, and productivity9.3 Feasibility revisited; 9.4 Feasibility and the hump-shaped curve; 9.5 Trophic structure and the diversity of production; 9.6 A review of hypotheses; 9.7 Summary and conclusions; Part III: Dynamic food web architectures; Chapter 10 Species-based versus biomass-based food web descriptions; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Dynamic food webs-playing Jenga; 10.3 Two case studies; 10.4 Stability, disturbance, and transition; 10.5 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 11 Dynamic architectures and stability of complex systems along productivity gradients
11.1 Introduction
Record Nr. UNINA-9910462233003321
Moore John C  
Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2012
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Energetic Food Webs [[electronic resource] ] : An analysis of real and model ecosystems
Energetic Food Webs [[electronic resource] ] : An analysis of real and model ecosystems
Autore Moore John C
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina 577
577.16
Altri autori (Persone) De RuiterPeter Cornelis <1952->
Collana Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
Soggetto topico Coral reef ecology
Food chains (Ecology)
Science -- Experiments
Science -- Study and teaching
ISBN 0-19-164642-3
1-283-57702-X
9786613889478
0-19-164641-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Contents; Chapter 1 Approaches to studying food webs; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Traditions in ecology; 1.2.1 The community perspective; 1.2.2 The ecosystem perspective; 1.3 Food webs and traditions in ecology; 1.3.1 Theoretically based food webs; 1.3.2 Empirically based food webs: architecture; 1.3.3 Empirically based food webs: information; 1.3.4 How useful are these descriptions?; 1.4 Bridging perspectives through energetics; 1.4.1 Core concepts and elements; 1.4.2 Comments on our approach to studying food webs; 1.5 An overview of the parts and chapters; 1.6 Summary
Part I: Modeling simple andmultispecies communitiesChapter 2 Models of simple and complex systems; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Model structure and assumptions; 2.3 Stability; 2.4 Simple food chains; 2.5 The dynamics of primary-producer-based and detritus-based models; 2.6 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 3 Connectedness food webs; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Soil food webs; 3.3 The CPER soil food web; 3.4 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 4 Energy flux food webs; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Biomass and physiological parameters; 4.3 Feeding rates and mineralization rates; 4.4 Energy flux descriptions
4.5 Summary and conclusionsChapter 5 Functional webs; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Interaction strengths; 5.3 A functional food web for the CPER; 5.4 Summary and conclusions; Part II: The dynamics and stability of simple and complex communities; Chapter 6 Energetic organization and food web stability; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Energetic organization and stability; 6.3 Distribution of interaction strengths: trophic-level-dependent interaction strengths; 6.4 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 7 Enrichment, trophic structure, and stability; 7.1 Introduction
7.2 Simple primary-producer-based and detritus-based models7.3 Trophic structure and dynamics along a productivity gradient; 7.4 More complex models; 7.5 Connections to real-world productivity; 7.6 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 8 Modeling compartments; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Complexity, diversity, compartments, and stability; 8.3 Defining compartments; 8.4 Approaches to studying compartments; 8.5 The energy channel; 8.6 Energy channels-structure and stability; 8.7 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 9 Productivity, dynamic stability, and species richness; 9.1 Introduction
9.2 Trophic structure, dynamics, and productivity9.3 Feasibility revisited; 9.4 Feasibility and the hump-shaped curve; 9.5 Trophic structure and the diversity of production; 9.6 A review of hypotheses; 9.7 Summary and conclusions; Part III: Dynamic food web architectures; Chapter 10 Species-based versus biomass-based food web descriptions; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Dynamic food webs-playing Jenga; 10.3 Two case studies; 10.4 Stability, disturbance, and transition; 10.5 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 11 Dynamic architectures and stability of complex systems along productivity gradients
11.1 Introduction
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Moore John C  
Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2012
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Energetic Food Webs : An analysis of real and model ecosystems
Energetic Food Webs : An analysis of real and model ecosystems
Autore Moore John C
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina 577
577.16
Altri autori (Persone) De RuiterPeter Cornelis <1952->
Collana Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
Soggetto topico Coral reef ecology
Food chains (Ecology)
Science -- Experiments
Science -- Study and teaching
ISBN 0-19-164642-3
1-283-57702-X
9786613889478
0-19-164641-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Contents; Chapter 1 Approaches to studying food webs; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Traditions in ecology; 1.2.1 The community perspective; 1.2.2 The ecosystem perspective; 1.3 Food webs and traditions in ecology; 1.3.1 Theoretically based food webs; 1.3.2 Empirically based food webs: architecture; 1.3.3 Empirically based food webs: information; 1.3.4 How useful are these descriptions?; 1.4 Bridging perspectives through energetics; 1.4.1 Core concepts and elements; 1.4.2 Comments on our approach to studying food webs; 1.5 An overview of the parts and chapters; 1.6 Summary
Part I: Modeling simple andmultispecies communitiesChapter 2 Models of simple and complex systems; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Model structure and assumptions; 2.3 Stability; 2.4 Simple food chains; 2.5 The dynamics of primary-producer-based and detritus-based models; 2.6 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 3 Connectedness food webs; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Soil food webs; 3.3 The CPER soil food web; 3.4 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 4 Energy flux food webs; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Biomass and physiological parameters; 4.3 Feeding rates and mineralization rates; 4.4 Energy flux descriptions
4.5 Summary and conclusionsChapter 5 Functional webs; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Interaction strengths; 5.3 A functional food web for the CPER; 5.4 Summary and conclusions; Part II: The dynamics and stability of simple and complex communities; Chapter 6 Energetic organization and food web stability; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Energetic organization and stability; 6.3 Distribution of interaction strengths: trophic-level-dependent interaction strengths; 6.4 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 7 Enrichment, trophic structure, and stability; 7.1 Introduction
7.2 Simple primary-producer-based and detritus-based models7.3 Trophic structure and dynamics along a productivity gradient; 7.4 More complex models; 7.5 Connections to real-world productivity; 7.6 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 8 Modeling compartments; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Complexity, diversity, compartments, and stability; 8.3 Defining compartments; 8.4 Approaches to studying compartments; 8.5 The energy channel; 8.6 Energy channels-structure and stability; 8.7 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 9 Productivity, dynamic stability, and species richness; 9.1 Introduction
9.2 Trophic structure, dynamics, and productivity9.3 Feasibility revisited; 9.4 Feasibility and the hump-shaped curve; 9.5 Trophic structure and the diversity of production; 9.6 A review of hypotheses; 9.7 Summary and conclusions; Part III: Dynamic food web architectures; Chapter 10 Species-based versus biomass-based food web descriptions; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Dynamic food webs-playing Jenga; 10.3 Two case studies; 10.4 Stability, disturbance, and transition; 10.5 Summary and conclusions; Chapter 11 Dynamic architectures and stability of complex systems along productivity gradients
11.1 Introduction
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Moore John C  
Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2012
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