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In this thesis, a collection of studies is presented that advance research on complex food webs in several directions. Food webs, as the networks of predator-prey interactions in ecosystems, are responsible for distributing the resources every organism needs to stay alive. They are thus central to our understanding of the mechanisms that support biodiversity, which in the face of increasing severity of anthropogenic global change and accelerated species loss is of highest importance, not least for our own well-being. The studies in the first part of the thesis are concerned with general mechanisms that determine the structure and stability of food webs. It is shown how the allometric scaling of metabolic rates with the species' body masses supports their persistence in size-structured food webs (where predators are larger than their prey), and how this interacts with the adaptive adjustment of foraging efforts by consumer species to create stable food webs with a large number of coexisting species. The importance of the master ...
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kumulative Habilitationsschrift
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Habilitationsschrift Universität Potsdam 2022
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Guill, Christian Pierre, 1983 - Structure, stability and functioning of food webs Potsdam, 2021
Language:
English
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.25932/publishup-56115
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-561153
URL:
https://d-nb.info/1270070908/34
Author information:
Guill, Christian Pierre 1983-
Author information:
Gaedke, Ursula
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