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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Mathematical tools for understanding infectious diseases dynamics [[electronic resource] /] / Odo Diekmann, Hans Heesterbeek, and Tom Britton |
Autore | Diekmann O |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (517 p.) |
Disciplina | 614.4 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HeesterbeekHans <1960->
BrittonTom |
Collana | Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology |
Soggetto topico |
Epidemiology - Mathematical models
Communicable diseases - Mathematical models |
Soggetto non controllato |
Bayesian statistical inference
ICU model Markov chain Monte Carlo method Markov chain Monte Carlo methods ReedІrost epidemic age structure asymptotic speed bacterial infections biological interpretation closed population compartmental epidemic systems consistency conditions contact duration demography dependence disease control disease outbreaks disease prevention disease transmission endemic epidemic models epidemic outbreak epidemic epidemiological models epidemiological parameters epidemiology general epidemic growth rate homogeneous community hospital infections hospital patients host population growth host human social behavior i-states individual states infected host infection transmission infection infectious disease epidemiology infectious disease infectious diseases infectious output infective agent infectivity intensive care units intrinsic growth rate larvae macroparasites mathematical modeling mathematical reasoning maximum likelihood estimation microparasites model construction outbreak situations outbreak pair approximation parasite load parasite population models propagation speed reproduction number separable mixing sexual activity stochastic epidemic model structured population models susceptibility vaccination |
ISBN |
1-283-57875-1
9786613891204 1-4008-4562-9 |
Classificazione | SCI008000MAT003000MED022090 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. The bare bones: Basic issues in the simplest context -- Part II. Structured populations -- Part III. Case studies on inference -- Part IV. Elaborations -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785785403321 |
Diekmann O | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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