From Energetics to Ecosystems: The Dynamics and Structure of Ecological Systems

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rooney, Neil (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), McCann, K. S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Noakes, D. L. G. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Biodiversity.; Ecosystems.; Life Sciences.; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.

Ecosystems are complex and enigmatic entities that are ultimately our life support systems. Understanding these systems to the point of being able to predict their behaviour in the face of perturbations requires that researchers adopt a number of strategies that vary in both approach and scale. This...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• SECTION I
• A Process-Oriented Approach to the Multispecies Functional Response
• Homage to Yodzis and Innes 1992: Scaling up Feeding-Based Population Dynamics to Complex Ecological Networks
• Food Webs, Body Size and the Curse of the Latin Binomial
• An Energetic Framework for Trophic Control
• SECTION II
• Experimental Studies of Food Webs: Causes and Consequences of Trophic Interactions
• Interplay Between Scale, Resolution, Life History and Food Web Properties
• Heteroclinic Cycles in the Rain Forest: Insights from Complex Dynamics
• Emergence in Ecological Systems
• Dynamic Signatures of Real and Model Ecosystems
• SECTION III
• Evolutionary Branching of Single Traits
• Feedback Effects Between the Food Chain and Induced Defense Strategies
• Evolutionary Demography: The Invasion Exponent and the Effective Population Density in Nonlinear Matrix Models
• Of Experimentalists, Empiricists, and Theoreticians.