Food Webs: From Connectivity to Energetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-12-013936-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC PR INC

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Advances in Ecological Researc

The most recent volume of this series, Advances in Ecological Research, demonstrates a captivating knowledge of recent advances in the analysis of food webs. A food web describes the network of predator-prey interactions within a community. The simplest description of a food web specifies only who eats whom (a connectance web), with no indication of how much or how often. Chapters in this book begin with a discussion of the most detailed connectance webs ever compiled, and advance to incorporate information on the body size and numerical abundance of the species. The results yield new ways of describing food webs and powerful new models for estimating patterns of energy flow in ecosystems.

Zielgruppe

Scientists and academicians studying ecology, evolution, plant biology, physiology, the environment, population biology, and entomology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caswell, Hal

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yiqi, Luo

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Terrestrische Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Food webs, body size and species abundance in ecological community description
Quantification and resolution of a complex, size-structured food web
Estimating relative energy fluxes using the food web, species abundance, and body size