UID:
almafu_9960119188002883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 416 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-87725-6
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1-316-87984-4
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1-316-87186-X
Content:
Presenting new approaches to studying food webs, this book uses practical management and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem management decisions and the broader issue of sustainability. All the information that readers need to use food web analyses as a tool for understanding and quantifying transition processes is provided. Advancing the idea of food webs as complex adaptive systems, readers are challenged to rethink how changes in environmental conditions affect these systems. Beginning with the current state of thinking about community organisation, complexity and stability, the book moves on to focus on the traits of organisms, the adaptive nature of communities and their impacts on ecosystem function. The final section of the book addresses the applications to management and sustainability. By helping to understand the complexities of multispecies networks, this book provides insights into the evolution of organisms and the fate of ecosystems in a changing world.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Food Webs: Complexity and Stability -- 1 Food Webs versus Interaction Networks: Principles, Pitfalls, and Perspectives -- 2 What Kind of Interaction-Type Diversity Matters for Community Stability? -- 3 Symmetry, Asymmetry, and Beyond: The Crucial Role of Interaction Strength in the Complexity-Stability Debate -- 4 Ecologically Effective Population Sizes and Functional Extinction of Species in Ecosystems -- 5 Merging Antagonistic and Mutualistic Bipartite Webs: A First Step to Integrate Interaction Diversity into Network Approaches -- 6 Toward Multiplex Ecological Networks: Accounting for Multiple Interaction Types to Understand Community Structure and Dynamics -- 7 Unpacking Resilience in Food Webs: An Emergent Property or a Sum of the Parts? -- Part II Food Webs: From Traits to Ecosystem Functioning -- 8 Integrating Food-Web and Trait-Based Ecology to Investigate Biomass-Trait Feedbacks -- 9 Including the Life Cycle in Food Webs -- 10 Importance of Trait-Related Flexibility for Food-Web Dynamics and the Maintenance of Biodiversity -- 11 Ecological Succession Investigated Through Food-Web Flow Networks -- 12 Statistical Approaches for Inferring and Predicting Food-Web Architecture -- 13 Global Metawebs of Spider Predation Highlight Consequences of Land-Use Change for Terrestrial Predator-Prey Networks -- 14 Ecological Networks in Managed Ecosystems: Connecting Structure to Services -- 15 Trait-Based and Process-Oriented Modeling in Ecological Network Dynamics -- 16 Empirical Methods of Identifying and Quantifying Trophic Interactions for Constructing Soil Food-Web Models -- Part III Food Webs and Environmental Sustainability -- 17 Integrating Species Interaction Networks and Biogeography -- Plates.
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18 Food-Web Dynamics When Divergent Life-History Strategies Respond to Environmental Variation Differently: A Fisheries Ecology Perspective -- 19 Rare but Important: Perturbations to Uncommon Species Can Have a Large Impact on the Structure of Ecological Communities -- 20 Food-Web Simulations: Stochastic Variability and Systems-Based Conservation -- 21 An Individual-Based Simulation Model to Link Population, Community, and Metacommunity Dynamics -- 22 Structural Instability of Food Webs and Food-Web Models and Their Implications for Management -- 23 Linking Ecology and Epidemiology: The Case of Infected Resource -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-18211-5
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316871867
