Keywords:
Food chains (Ecology).
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (616 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780080460949
Series Statement:
Issn Series ; v.Volume 3
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=269757
Language:
English
Note:
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.
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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 -- 7.2 | PERTURBATIONS AND INDIRECT EFFECTS IN COMPLEX FOOD WEBS -- 7.3 | DEALING WITH MODEL UNCERTAINTY IN TROPHODYNAMIC MODELS: A PATAGONIAN EXAMPLE -- 7.4 | DESCRIBING A SPECIES-RICH RIVER FOOD WEB USING STABLE ISOTOPES, STOMACH CONTENTS, AND FUNCTIONAL EXPERIMENTS -- 7.5 | COMMUNICATING ECOLOGY THROUGH FOOD WEBS: VISUALIZING AND QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF STOCKING ALPINE LAKES WITH TROUT -- 8.0 | PREFACE: THEMATIC REVIEWS -- 8.1 | HOW DO COMPLEX FOOD WEBS PERSIST IN NATURE? -- 8.2 | POPULATION DYNAMICS AND FOOD WEB STRUCTURE - PREDICTING MEASURABLE FOOD WEB PROPERTIES WITH MINIMAL DETAIL AND RESOLUTION.
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8.3 | CENTRAL ISSUES FOR AQUATIC FOOD WEBS: FROM CHEMICAL CUES TO WHOLE SYSTEM RESPONSES -- 8.4 | SPATIAL ASPECTS OF FOOD WEBS -- back matter -- References -- Keywords -- index -- Color Plates.
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