Keywords:
Ecology--Mathematical models.
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Biotic communities.
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Food chains (Ecology).
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Energie (exacte wetenschappen) gtt.
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Voedselketens. gtt.
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Ecosystemen. gtt.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781402053375
Series Statement:
The Peter Yodzis Fundamental Ecology Series ; v.1
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=323594
DDC:
577
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- SECTION I -- 1. A Process-Oriented Approach to the Multispecies Functional Response -- 2. Homage to Yodzis and Innes 1992: Scaling up Feeding-Based Population Dynamics to Complex Ecological Networks -- 3. Food Webs, Body Size and the Curse of the Latin Binomial -- 4. An Energetic Framework for Trophic Control -- SECTION II -- 5. Experimental Studies of Food Webs: Causes and Consequences of Trophic Interactions -- 6. Interplay Between Scale, Resolution, Life History and Food Web Properties -- 7. Heteroclinic Cycles in the Rain Forest: Insights from Complex Dynamics -- 8. Emergence in Ecological Systems -- 9. Dynamic Signatures of Real and Model Ecosystems -- SECTION III -- 10. Evolutionary Branching of Single Traits -- 11. Feedback Effects Between the Food Chain and Induced Defense Strategies -- 12. Evolutionary Demography: The Invasion Exponent and the Effective Population Density in Nonlinear Matrix Models -- 13. Of Experimentalists, Empiricists, and Theoreticians -- Index.
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