【2012】 Energetic Food Webs: An analysis of real and model ecosystems
Book 图书名称: Energetic Food Webs: An analysis of real and model ecosystems
Author 作者: John C. Moore, Peter C. de Ruiter
Publisher 出版社: Oxford University Press
Page 页数: 352
Publishing Date 出版时间: Jul 26, 2012
Language 语言: English
Size 大小: 3 MB
Format 格式: pdf 文字版
ISBN: 0198566182, 9780198566182
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛,没有该文档
In ecosystems with many species, food webs form highly complex networks of resource-consumer interactions. At the same time, the food web as itself needs sufficient resources to develop and survive. So in fact, food web ecology is about how natural resources form the basis of biological communities, in terms of species richness and abundances as well as how species are organised in communities on the basis of the resource availability and use. The central theme of this book is that patterns in the utilisation of energy result from the trophic interactions among species, and that these patterns form the basis of ecosystem stability.
The authors integrate the latest work on community dynamics, ecosystem energetics, and stability, and in so doing attempt to dispel the categorisation of the field into the separate subdisciplines of population, community, and ecosystem ecology. Energetic Food Webs represents the first attempt to bridge the gap between the energetic and species approaches to ecology.