James E Garvey, Matt Whiles

Trophic Ecology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a bridge between organismal/community approaches to food web dynamics and ecosystem-level approaches to production. It explains topics including autotrophy, heterotrophy, omnivory, decomposition, foraging behavior and theory, trophic cascades, bioenergetics, and production.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 379
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780367138653
• ISBN-10: 0367138654
• Artikelnr.: 56977103

Autorenporträt

James E. Garvey, Matt Whiles

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and History of Trophic Ecology Concepts and Patterns 2.
Trophic Pyramids and Trophic Levels 3. Scavenging and Decomposition
Mechanisms at the organismal Scale 4. Foraging in Patches 5. Predation 6.
Prey Diet Data, Modeling, and Energetics Approaches 7. Analyzing Diets 8.
Bioenergetics, Ecosystem Metabolism, and Metabolic Theory 9. Consumption
and Nutrition Community and ecosystem concepts 10. Food Webs 11. Secondary
Production Quantifying Material Flux and Synthesis 12. Nutrient Dynamics
and Stoichiometry 13. Elements and Isotopes as Tracers 14. Use and
Importance of Lipids in Trophic Ecology 15. Synthesis for Trophic Ecology