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Community Food Webs
Cohen, Joel E.; Briand, Frederic; Newman, Charles M.
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Description for Community Food Webs
Paperback. Series: Biomathematics. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PBT; PBV; PSAF; PSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 562.
Food webs hold a central place in ecology. They describe which organisms feed on which others in natural habitats. This book describes recently discovered empirical regularities in real food webs: it proposes a novel theory unifying many of these regularities, as well as extensive empirical data. After a general introduction, reviewing the empirical and theoretical discoveries about food webs, the second portion of the book shows that community food webs obey several striking phenomenological regularities. Some of these unify, regardless of habitat. Others differentiate, showing that habitat significantly influences structure. The third portion of the book presents a theoretical analysis ... Read more
Food webs hold a central place in ecology. They describe which organisms feed on which others in natural habitats. This book describes recently discovered empirical regularities in real food webs: it proposes a novel theory unifying many of these regularities, as well as extensive empirical data. After a general introduction, reviewing the empirical and theoretical discoveries about food webs, the second portion of the book shows that community food webs obey several striking phenomenological regularities. Some of these unify, regardless of habitat. Others differentiate, showing that habitat significantly influences structure. The third portion of the book presents a theoretical analysis ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Series
Biomathematics
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642837869
SKU
V9783642837869
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Ref
99-15
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