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Energetic Food Webs - An analysis of real and model ecosystems (Hardcover)
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Energetic Food Webs - An analysis of real and model ecosystems (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
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This novel book bridges the gap between the energetic and species
approaches to studying food webs, addressing many important topics
in ecology. Species, matter, and energy are common features of all
ecological systems. Through the lens of complex adaptive systems
thinking, the authors explore how the inextricable relationship
between species, matter, and energy can explain how systems are
structured and how they persist in real and model systems. Food
webs are viewed as open and dynamic systems. The central theme of
the book is that the basis of ecosystem persistence and stability
rests on the interplay between the rates of input of energy into
the system from living and dead sources, and the patterns in
utilization of energy that result from the trophic interactions
among species within the system. To develop this theme, the authors
integrate the latest work on community dynamics, ecosystem
energetics, and stability. In so doing, they present a unified
ecology that dispels the categorization of the field into the
separate subdisciplines of population, community, and ecosystem
ecology. stability. Energetic Food Webs is suitable for both
graduate level students and professional researchers in the general
field of ecology. It will be of particular relevance and use to
those working in the specific areas of food webs, species dynamics,
material and energy cycling, as well as community and ecosystem
ecology.
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