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Energetic Food Webs
An analysis of real and model ecosystems
John C. Moore and Peter C. de Ruiter
344 pages
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Numerous illustrations
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234x156mm
978-0-19-856619-9
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Paperback
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31 May 2012
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- The first book to synthesise and thoroughly integrate research on community dynamics, ecosystem energetics, and stability
- Combines theoretical and empirical work from the often separated sub-disciplines of community and ecosystem ecology
- Emphasises the role of detritus and decomposers in the maintenance and functioning of ecosystems
- Incorporates many examples from soil ecosystems, extending findings to other aboveground terrestrial ecosystems and freshwater and marine aquatic ecosystems
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. Through the lens of complex adaptive systems thinking, the authors explore how the inextricable relationship between species, matter, and energy can explain how systems are structured and how they persist in real and model systems. Food webs are 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.Readership: 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, community, and ecosystem ecology.
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John C. Moore, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, USA, and Peter C. de Ruiter, Biometris, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
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1: Approaches to studying food webs
Section I: Modelling Simple and Multispecies Communities
2: Models of Simple and Complex Systems
3: Connectedness Food Webs
4: Energy Flux Food Webs
5: Functional webs
Section II: The Dynamics and Stability of Simple and Complex Communities
6: Energetic Organization and Food Web Stability
7: Enrichment, Trophic Structure, and Dynamic Stability
8: Modeling Compartments
9: Productivity, Dynamic Stability, and Species Richness
Section III: Dynamic Food Web Architectures
10: Species-based versus Biomass-based Food Web Descriptions
11: Dynamic Architectures and Stability of Complex Systems along Productivity Gradients
12: Food Webs Dynamics Beyond Asymptotic Behavior
References
Index
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