Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)

In all fields of science today, data are collected and theories are developed and published faster than scientists can keep up with, let alone thoroughly digest. In ecology the fact that practitioners tend to be divided between such subdisciplines as aquatic and terrestrial ecology, as well as between popula tion, community, and ecosystem ecology, makes it even harder for them to keep up with all relevant research. Ecologists specializing in one sub discipline are not always aware of progress in another subdiscipline that relates to their own. Syntheses are frequently needed that pull together large bodies of information and organize them in ways that makes them more coherent, and thus more understandable. I have tried to perform this task of integration for the subject area that encompasses the interrelationships between the dynamics of ecological food webs and the cycling of nutrients. I believe this area cuts across many of the subdisciplines of ecology and is pivotal to our progress in understanding ecosystems and in dealing with human impacts on the environment. Many current ecological problems involve human disturbances of both food webs and the nutrients that cycle through them. Little progress can be made towards elucidating the complex feedback relations inherent in the study of nutrient cycles in ecological systems without the tools of mathematics and computer modelling. These tools are therefore liberally used throughout the book."

General

Imprint:	Chapman and Hall
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Population and Community Biology Series, 9
Release date:	October 1991
First published:	1992
Authors:	Donald L. DeAngelis
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
ISBN-13:	978-0-412-29840-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > General Promotions
LSN:	0-412-29840-6
Barcode:	9780412298400

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