Gary A. Polis, Kirk O. Winemiller

Food Webs

Integration of Patterns & Dynamics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reflecting the recent surge of activity in food web research fueled by new empirical data, this authoritative volume successfully spans and integrates the areas of theory, basic empirical research, applications, and resource problems. Written by recognized leaders from various branches of ecological research, this work provides an in-depth treatment of the most recent advances in the field and examines the complexity and variability of food webs through reviews, new research, and syntheses of the major issues in food web research. Food Webs features material on the role of nutrients, detritus and microbes in food webs, indirect effects in food webs, the interaction of productivity and consumption, linking cause and effect in food webs, temporal and spatial scales of food web dynamics, applications of food webs to pest management, fisheries, and ecosystem stress. Three comprehensive chapters synthesize important information on the role of indirect effects, productivity and consumer regulation, and temporal, spatial and life history influences on food webs. In addition, numerous tables, figures, and mathematical equations found nowhere else in related literature are presented in this outstanding work. Food Webs offers researchers and graduate students in various branches of ecology an extensive examination of the subject. Ecologists interested in food webs or community ecology will also find this book an invaluable tool for understanding the current state of knowledge of food web research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4615-7009-7
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9781461570097
• ISBN-10: 1461570093
• Artikelnr.: 39512435

Inhaltsangabe

Food Webs: What Do They Tell Us About the World?.- 1. Detritus and Nutrients in Food Webs.- 2. Food Webs and Nutrient Cycling in Soils: Interactions and Positive Feedbacks.- 3. Energetics of Detritivory and Microbivory in Soil in Theory and Practice.- 4. Integrating the Microbial Loop and the Classic Food Chain into a Realistic Planktonic Food Web.- 5. Trophic Structure and Carbon Flow Dynamics in the Pelagic Community of a Large Lake.- 6. Biogeochemistry and Trophic Ecology: A New Food Web Diagram.- 7. Nutrient Transport and Recycling by Consumers in Lake Food Webs: Implications for Algal Communities.- 8. Food Web Structure and Littoral Zone Coupling to Pelagic Trophic Cascades.- 9. Interaction of Productivity and Consumption.- 10. Dynamics and Interactions in Food Webs with Adaptive Foragers.- 11. Nonlinear Food Web Models and Their Responses to Increased Basal Productivity.- 12. The Relative Importance of Resource Limitation and Predator Limitation in Food Chains.- 13. Indirect Effects of Herbivores Modify Predicted Effects of Resources and Consumption on Plant Biomass.- 14. Food Web Dynamics on Some Small Subtropical Islands: Effects of Top and Intermediate Predators.- 15. Top Down from Underground? The Underappreciated Influence of Subterranean Food Webs on Aboveground Ecology.- 16. Causes and Effects in Food Webs: Do Generalities Exist?.- 17. Assessing the Relative Importance of Trophic Links in Food Webs.- 18. Food Webs and Perturbation Experiments: Theory and Practice.- 19. Energetics and Stability in Belowground Food Webs.- 20. What Equilibrium Behavior of Lotka-Volterra Models Does Not Tell Us About Food Webs.- 21. Effects of Food Chain Length and Omnivory on Population Dynamics in Experimental Food Webs.- 22. Structure and Dynamics of Arctic-Subarctic GrazingWebs in Relation to Primary Productivity.- 23. Food Webs: From the Lindeman Paradigm to a Taxonomic General Theory of Ecology.- 24. Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Food Web Structure and Dynamics.- 25. Control of Interaction Strength in Marine Benthic Communities.- 26. Allochthonous Input Across Habitats, Subsidized Consumers, and Apparent Trophic Cascades: Examples from the Ocean-Land Interface.- 27. Disturbance and Food Chain Length in Rivers.- 28. Factors Driving Temporal and Spatial Variation in Aquatic Floodplain Food Webs.- 29. Food Webs in Space: An Island Biogeographic Perspective.- 30. Food Web Dynamics and Applied Problems.- 31. Structure and Impact of Natural Enemy Guilds in Biological Control of Insect Pests.- 32. Quantifying the Impact of Insecticides on Food Web Structure of Rice Arthropod Populations in a Philippine Farmer's Irrigated Field: A Case Study.- 33. The Impact of Industrial Fisheries on the Trophic Structure of Marine Ecosystems.- 34. Trophic Flow Networks as Indicators of Ecosystem Stress.- 35. The Role of Indirect Effects in Food Webs.- 36. Productivity and Consumer Regulation-Concepts, Patterns, and Mechanisms.- 37. Time, Space, and Life History: Influences on Food Webs.

Rezensionen

...this important book..is not a ramshackle compilation of idiosyncratic articles, incomprehensible to those outside the field. - Trends in Ecology and Evolution; ...well written and edited volume is substantial and stimulating. I believe it will be an important reference point in the field and I would strongly recommend it to anyone working in community ecology. - Endeavour; The study of these food web proceses is one of the most fundamental concerns of ecology, and this book represents a fascinating summary of current food web research that should interest a wide range of ecologists. - Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 7/97; Just a few of the book's many interesting points could whet the appetite of a student of ecology. - Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 7/97