Energetic Food Webs
«The authors present a coherent, comprehensive case for the study of food webs through energetics. They show that many of the patterns and results found in the literature can be interpreted in this unified framework»
Ecology
This novel book bridges the gap between the energetic and species approaches to studying food webs, addressing many important topics in ecology. Species, matter, and energy are common features of all ecological systems. Les mer
viewed as open and dynamic systems. The central theme of the book is that the basis of ecosystem persistence and stability rests on the interplay between the rates of input of energy into the system from living and dead sources, and the patterns in utilization of energy that result from the trophic
interactions among species within the system. To develop this theme, the authors integrate the latest work on community dynamics, ecosystem energetics, and stability. In so doing, they present a unified ecology that dispels the categorization of the field into the separate subdisciplines of population, community, and ecosystem ecology.
Energetic Food Webs is suitable for both graduate level students and professional researchers in the general field of ecology. It will be of particular relevance and use to those working in the specific areas of food webs, species dynamics, material and energy cycling, as well as community and ecosystem ecology.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198566199
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«The authors present a coherent, comprehensive case for the study of food webs through energetics. They show that many of the patterns and results found in the literature can be interpreted in this unified framework»
Ecology