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Author : Kevin S. McCann
Release : 2012
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 189/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Food Webs (MPB-50) by : Kevin S. McCann
Download or read book Food Webs (MPB-50) written by Kevin S. McCann. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesizes and reconciles modern and classical perspectives into a general unified theory.
Author : Ricard V. Solé
Release : 2006-03-26
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 407/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems. (MPB-42) by : Ricard V. Solé
Download or read book Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems. (MPB-42) written by Ricard V. Solé. This book was released on 2006-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing a theoretical view of ecosystems based on how they self-organise to produce complex patterns, this book focuses on very simple models that despite their simplicity encapsulate fundamental properties of how ecosystems work.
Author : Lisa Perlman Greathouse
Release : 2015-05-20
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 38X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Food Webs by : Lisa Perlman Greathouse
Download or read book Food Webs written by Lisa Perlman Greathouse. This book was released on 2015-05-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments. Third grade students will learn all food webs through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.
Author : Axel G. Rossberg
Release : 2013-06-03
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 175/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Food Webs and Biodiversity by : Axel G. Rossberg
Download or read book Food Webs and Biodiversity written by Axel G. Rossberg. This book was released on 2013-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food webs have now been addressed in empirical and theoretical research for more than 50 years. Yet, even elementary foundational issues are still hotly debated. One difficulty is that a multitude of processes need to be taken into account to understand the patterns found empirically in the structure of food webs and communities. Food Webs and Biodiversity develops a fresh, comprehensive perspective on food webs. Mechanistic explanations for several known macroecological patterns are derived from a few fundamental concepts, which are quantitatively linked to field-observables. An argument is developed that food webs will often be the key to understanding patterns of biodiversity at community level. Key Features: Predicts generic characteristics of ecological communities in invasion-extirpation equilibrium. Generalizes the theory of competition to food webs with arbitrary topologies. Presents a new, testable quantitative theory for the mechanisms determining species richness in food webs, and other new results. Written by an internationally respected expert in the field. With global warming and other pressures on ecosystems rising, understanding and protecting biodiversity is a cause of international concern. This highly topical book will be of interest to a wide ranging audience, including not only graduate students and practitioners in community and conservation ecology but also the complex-systems research community as well as mathematicians and physicists interested in the theory of networks. "This is a comprehensive work outlining a large array of very novel and potentially game-changing ideas in food web ecology." —Ken Haste Andersen, Technical University of Denmark "I believe that this will be a landmark book in community ecology ... it presents a well-established and consistent mathematical theory of food-webs. It is testable in many ways and the author finds remarkable agreements between predictions and reality." —Géza Meszéna, Eötvös University, Budapest
Author : Gary A. Polis
Release : 2013-04-17
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 077/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Food Webs by : Gary A. Polis
Download or read book Food Webs written by Gary A. Polis. This book was released on 2013-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the recent surge of activity in food web research fueled by new empirical data, this authoritative volume successfully spans and integrates the areas of theory, basic empirical research, applications, and resource problems. Written by recognized leaders from various branches of ecological research, this work provides an in-depth treatment of the most recent advances in the field and examines the complexity and variability of food webs through reviews, new research, and syntheses of the major issues in food web research. Food Webs features material on the role of nutrients, detritus and microbes in food webs, indirect effects in food webs, the interaction of productivity and consumption, linking cause and effect in food webs, temporal and spatial scales of food web dynamics, applications of food webs to pest management, fisheries, and ecosystem stress. Three comprehensive chapters synthesize important information on the role of indirect effects, productivity and consumer regulation, and temporal, spatial and life history influences on food webs. In addition, numerous tables, figures, and mathematical equations found nowhere else in related literature are presented in this outstanding work. Food Webs offers researchers and graduate students in various branches of ecology an extensive examination of the subject. Ecologists interested in food webs or community ecology will also find this book an invaluable tool for understanding the current state of knowledge of food web research.
