Ecological networks [[electronic resource] ] : linking structure to dynamics in food webs / / editors, Mercedes Pascual, Jennifer A. Dunne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
Disciplina | 577/.16 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PascualMercedes
DunneJennifer A |
Collana | Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity |
Soggetto topico | Food chains (Ecology) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-11343-0
9786613113436 0-19-977505-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; A. INTRODUCTION; B. STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; C. INTEGRATING ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; D. ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS AS EVOLVING, ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; E. STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; F. CONCLUSIONS; Index |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
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Ecological networks [[electronic resource] ] : linking structure to dynamics in food webs / / editors, Mercedes Pascual, Jennifer A. Dunne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
Disciplina | 577/.16 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PascualMercedes
DunneJennifer A |
Collana | Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity |
Soggetto topico | Food chains (Ecology) |
ISBN |
0-19-770077-2
0-19-988491-9 1-283-11343-0 9786613113436 0-19-977505-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; A. INTRODUCTION; B. STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; C. INTEGRATING ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; D. ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS AS EVOLVING, ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; E. STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; F. CONCLUSIONS; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790072903321 |
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ecological networks [[electronic resource] ] : linking structure to dynamics in food webs / / editors, Mercedes Pascual, Jennifer A. Dunne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
Disciplina | 577/.16 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
PascualMercedes
DunneJennifer A |
Collana | Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity |
Soggetto topico | Food chains (Ecology) |
ISBN |
0-19-770077-2
0-19-988491-9 1-283-11343-0 9786613113436 0-19-977505-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; A. INTRODUCTION; B. STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; C. INTEGRATING ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; D. ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS AS EVOLVING, ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; E. STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; F. CONCLUSIONS; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818908803321 |
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Food chains [[electronic resource] ] : new research / / Melissa A. Jensen and Danielle W. Muller, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina | 577/.16 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
JensenMelissa A
MullerDanielle W |
Collana | Environmental science, engineering and technology |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental toxicology
Food chains (Ecology) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-62081-053-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461198903321 |
Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Food chains [[electronic resource] ] : new research / / Melissa A. Jensen and Danielle W. Muller, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina | 577/.16 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
JensenMelissa A
MullerDanielle W |
Collana | Environmental science, engineering and technology |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental toxicology
Food chains (Ecology) |
ISBN | 1-62081-053-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790192003321 |
Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Food chains [[electronic resource] ] : new research / / Melissa A. Jensen and Danielle W. Muller, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina | 577/.16 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
JensenMelissa A
MullerDanielle W |
Collana | Environmental science, engineering and technology |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental toxicology
Food chains (Ecology) |
ISBN | 1-62081-053-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812582903321 |
Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Food webs [[electronic resource] /] / Kevin S. McCann |
Autore | McCann Kevin S (Kevin Shear), <1964-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
Disciplina | 577/.16 |
Collana | Monographs in population biology |
Soggetto topico |
Food chains (Ecology)
Biotic communities |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Canadian Shield
Gershgorin discs Hopf bifurcation Robert Holt adaptive behavior alternative stable states aquatic microcosm asynchrony bifurcation bird feeder effect body size competition consumers consumerвesource dynamics consumerвesource interactions consumerвesource models consumerвesource theory continuous logistic growth models detritus diamond food web discrete equations dynamical systems theory dynamical systems ecological instability ecological stability ecological systems ecosystem collapse ecosystem dynamics ecosystem size ecosystem stability ecosystems eigenvalue equilibrium steady state equilibrium excitable interactions food chains food web structure food web theory food webs foraging generalism generalists grazing habitat human impacts interaction strength intraguild predation model lags lake trout local stability analysis matrix theory microcosm experiments mobile adaptive predators modular theory module motif natural ecosystems nature nonequilibrium dynamics nonequilibrium steady state nonexcitable interactions nutrient decomposition nutrient recycling nutrients omnivory oscillation oscillatory decay phase space population dynamics population growth population models population structure populations resources space species stage structure stage-structured lags subsidies subsystems sustainability time series trade-offs traits whole-community approach whole-system matrix |
ISBN |
1-283-29071-5
9786613290717 1-4008-4068-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461569803321 |
McCann Kevin S (Kevin Shear), <1964-> | ||
Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Food webs [[electronic resource] /] / Kevin S. McCann |
Autore | McCann Kevin S (Kevin Shear), <1964-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
Disciplina | 577/.16 |
Collana | Monographs in population biology |
Soggetto topico |
Food chains (Ecology)
Biotic communities |
Soggetto non controllato |
Canadian Shield
Gershgorin discs Hopf bifurcation Robert Holt adaptive behavior alternative stable states aquatic microcosm asynchrony bifurcation bird feeder effect body size competition consumers consumerвesource dynamics consumerвesource interactions consumerвesource models consumerвesource theory continuous logistic growth models detritus diamond food web discrete equations dynamical systems theory dynamical systems ecological instability ecological stability ecological systems ecosystem collapse ecosystem dynamics ecosystem size ecosystem stability ecosystems eigenvalue equilibrium steady state equilibrium excitable interactions food chains food web structure food web theory food webs foraging generalism generalists grazing habitat human impacts interaction strength intraguild predation model lags lake trout local stability analysis matrix theory microcosm experiments mobile adaptive predators modular theory module motif natural ecosystems nature nonequilibrium dynamics nonequilibrium steady state nonexcitable interactions nutrient decomposition nutrient recycling nutrients omnivory oscillation oscillatory decay phase space population dynamics population growth population models population structure populations resources space species stage structure stage-structured lags subsidies subsystems sustainability time series trade-offs traits whole-community approach whole-system matrix |
ISBN |
1-283-29071-5
9786613290717 1-4008-4068-6 |
Classificazione | SCI020000SCI008000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789719303321 |
McCann Kevin S (Kevin Shear), <1964-> | ||
Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Food webs / / Kevin S. McCann |
Autore | McCann Kevin S (Kevin Shear), <1964-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
Disciplina | 577/.16 |
Collana | Monographs in population biology |
Soggetto topico |
Food chains (Ecology)
Biotic communities |
ISBN |
1-283-29071-5
9786613290717 1-4008-4068-6 |
Classificazione | SCI020000SCI008000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820087003321 |
McCann Kevin S (Kevin Shear), <1964-> | ||
Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Food webs and biodiversity [[electronic resource] /] / Axel G. Rossberg |
Autore | Rossberg Axel G. <1969-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (398 p.) |
Disciplina | 577/.16 |
Soggetto topico |
Biodiversity
Ecology - Mathematical models Food chains (Ecology) |
ISBN |
1-118-50217-5
1-118-50218-3 1-118-50215-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Food Webs and Biodiversity: Foundations, Models, Data; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; Part I: Preliminaries; 1 Introduction; 2 Models and Theories; 2.1 The usefulness of models; 2.2 What models should model; 2.3 The possibility of ecological theory; 2.4 Theory-driven ecological research; 3 Some Basic Concepts; 3.1 Basic concepts of food-web studies; 3.2 Physical quantities and dimensions; Part II: Elements of Food-Web Models; 4 Energy and Biomass Budgets; 4.1 Currencies of accounting; 4.2 Rates and efficiencies; 4.3 Energy budgets in food webs
5 Allometric Scaling Relationships Between Body Size and Physiological Rates5.1 Scales and scaling; 5.2 Allometric scaling; 6 Population Dynamics; 6.1 Basic considerations; 6.1.1 Exponential population growth; 6.1.2 Five complications; 6.1.3 Environmental variability; 6.2 Structured populations and density-dependence; 6.2.1 The dilemma between species and stages; 6.2.2 Explicitly stage-structured population dynamics; 6.2.3 Communities of structured populations; 6.3 The Quasi-Neutral Approximation; 6.3.1 The emergence of food webs; 6.3.2 Rana catesbeiana and its resources 6.3.3 Numerical test of the approximation6.4 Reproductive value; 6.4.1 The concept of reproductive value; 6.4.2 The role of reproductive value in the QNA; 6.4.3 Body mass as a proxy for reproductive value; 7 From Trophic Interactions to Trophic Link Strengths; 7.1 Functional and numerical responses; 7.2 Three models for functional responses; 7.2.1 Linear response; 7.2.2 Type II response; 7.2.3 Type II response with prey switching; 7.2.4 Strengths and weaknesses of these models; 7.3 Food webs as networks of trophic link strengths; 7.3.1 The ontology of trophic link strengths 7.3.2 Variability of trophic link strengths8 Tropic Niche Space and Trophic Traits; 8.1 Topology and dimensionality of trophic niche space; 8.1.1 Formal setting; 8.1.2 Definition of trophic niche-space dimensionality; 8.2 Examples and ecological interpretations; 8.2.1 A minimal example; 8.2.2 Is the definition of dimensionality reasonable?; 8.2.3 Dependencies between vulnerability and foraging traits of a species; 8.2.4 The range of phenotypes considered affects niche-space dimensionality; 8.3 Determination of trophic niche-space dimensionality; 8.3.1 Typical empirical data 8.3.2 Direct estimation of dimensionality8.3.3 Iterative estimation of dimensionality; 8.4 Identification of trophic traits; 8.4.1 Formal setting; 8.4.2 Dimensional reduction; 8.5 The geometry of trophic niche space; 8.5.1 Abstract trophic traits; 8.5.2 Indeterminacy in abstract trophic traits; 8.5.3 The D-dimensional niche space as a pseudo-Euclidean space; 8.5.4 Linear transformations of abstract trophic traits; 8.5.5 Non-linear transformations of abstract trophic traits; 8.5.6 Standardization and interpretation of abstract trophic traits; 8.5.7 A hypothesis and a convention 8.5.8 Getting oriented in trophic niche space |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139054903321 |
Rossberg Axel G. <1969-> | ||
Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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