Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change

Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Country
United States
Published
20 December 2005
Pages
608
ISBN
9780120884582

Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change

Dynamic Food Webs challenges us to rethink what factors may determine ecological and evolutionary pathways of food web development. It touches upon the intriguing idea that trophic interactions drive patterns and dynamics at different levels of biological organization: dynamics in species composition, dynamics in population life-history parameters and abundances, and dynamics in individual growth, size and behavior. These dynamics are shown to be strongly interrelated governing food web structure and stability and the role of populations and communities play in ecosystem functioning.

Dynamic Food Webs not only offers over 100 illustrations, but also contains 8 riveting sections devoted to an understanding of how to manage the effects of environmental change, the protection of biological diversity and the sustainable use of natural resources.

Dynamic Food Webs is a volume in the Theoretical Ecology series.

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