Food webs and biodiversity /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Rossberg, Axel G., 1969-
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
• Θέματα: Biodiversity.; Food chains (Ecology); Ecology > Mathematical models.; NATURE > Ecology.; NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.; SCIENCE > Environmental Science.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.; Electronic books.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I. Preliminaries
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Models and Theories
• 3. Some Basic Concepts
• Part II. Elements of Food-Web Models
• 4. Energy and Biomass Budgets
• 5. Allometric Scaling Relationships Between Body Size and Physiological Rates
• 6. Population Dynamics
• 7. From Trophic Interactions to Trophic Link Strengths
• 8. Tropic Niche Space and Trophic Traits
• 9. Community Turnover and Evolution
• 10. The Population-Dynamical Matching Model
• Part III. Mechanisms and Processes
• 11. Basic Characterizations of Link-Strength Distributions
• 12. Diet Partitioning
• 13. Multivariate Link-Strength Distributions and Phylogenetic Patterns
• 14. A Framework Theory for Community Assembly
• 15. Competition in Food Webs
• 16. Mean-Field Theory of Resource-Mediated Competition
• 17. Resource-Mediated Competition and Assembly
• 18. Random-Matrix Competition Theory
• 19. Species Richness, Size and Trophic Level
• 20. Consumer-Mediated Competition and Assembly
• 21. Food Chains and Size Spectra
• 22. Structure and Dynamics of PDMM Model Communities
• Part IV. Implications
• 23. Scientific Implications
• 24. Conservation Implications.