Food Webs - Brossura

Pimm, Stuart L. L.

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ISBN 10: 0226668320 ISBN 13: 9780226668321

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2002

Riassunto

Food webs are diagrams depicting which species interact or in other words, who eats whom. An understanding of the structure and function of food webs is crucial for any study of how an ecosystem works, including attempts to predict which communities might be more vulnerable to disturbance and therefore in more immediate need of conservation.

Although it was first published twenty years ago, Stuart Pimm's Food Webs remains the clearest introduction to the study of food webs. Reviewing various hypotheses in the light of theoretical and empirical evidence, Pimm shows that even the most complex food webs follow certain patterns and that those patterns are shaped by a limited number of biological processes, such as population dynamics and energy flow. Pimm provides a variety of mathematical tools for unravelling these patterns and processes, and demonstrates their application through concrete examples. For this edition, he has written a new foreword covering recent developments in the study of food webs and demonstrates their continuing importance to conservation biology.

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L'autore:

Stuart L. Pimm is a professor of ecology in the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University. He is the author ofThe World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth and The Balance of Nature? Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities, the latter oublished by the University of Chicago Press.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

Although it was first published twenty years ago, Stuart Pimm's Food Wedsremains the clearest introduction yet to the study of food webs, diagrams depicting which species interact-in other words, who eats whom. Reviewing various empirical evidence, Pimm shows that even the most complex food webs follow certain patterns, and that those patterns are shaped by a limited number of biological processes—processes he provides mathematical tools for unraveling (and conrete examples of those tools' application). This edition adds a new foreword covering recent developments in the study of food webs and demonstrating their continuing importance to conservation biology, particularly attemts to predict which communities are most culnerable to disturbance.

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• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0226668320
• ISBN 13: 9780226668321
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 260