Community Food Webs : Data and Theory

Cohen, Joel E.; Briand, Frederic; Newman, Charles M.; Palka, Zbigniew J. (CON)

ISBN 10: 3642837867 / ISBN 13: 9783642837869

Editore: Springer, 2011

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• Titolo: Community Food Webs : Data and Theory
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3642837867
• ISBN 13: 9783642837869
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

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.

Contenuti

I. General Introduction.- § 0. Food Webs and Community Structure.- II. Empirical Regularities.- § 0. Untangling an Entangled Bank.- A. General Regularities.- § 1. Ratio of Prey to Predators in Community Food Webs.- § 2. Community Food Webs Have Scale-Invariant Structure.- § 3. Trophic Links of Community Food Webs.- § 4. Food Webs and the Dimensionality of Trophic Niche Space.- B. Differential Regularities.- § 5. Environmental Control of Food Web Structure.- § 6. Environmental Correlates of Food Chain Length.- III. A Stochastic Theory of Community Food Webs.- § 1. Theory: Circles of Complexity, Spherical Horses.- § 2. Models and Aggregated Data.- § 3. Individual Webs.- § 4. Predicted and Observed Lengths of Food Chains.- § 5. Theory of Food Chain Lengths in Large Webs.- § 6. Intervality and Triangulation in the Trophic Niche Overlap Graph.- IV. Data on 113 Community Food Webs.- References.- Acknowledgements.- Authors Index.