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Rossberg, Axel G., 1969-

Food webs and biodiversity / Axel G. Rossberg. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Preliminaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Models and Theories -- 3. Some Basic Concepts -- Part II. Elements of Food-Web Models -- 4. Energy and Biomass Budgets -- 5. Allometric Scaling Relationships Between Body Size and Physiological Rates -- 6. Population Dynamics -- 7. From Trophic Interactions to Trophic Link Strengths -- 8. Tropic Niche Space and Trophic Traits -- 9. Community Turnover and Evolution -- 10. The Population-Dynamical Matching Model -- Part III. Mechanisms and Processes -- 11. Basic Characterizations of Link-Strength Distributions -- 12. Diet Partitioning -- 13. Multivariate Link-Strength Distributions and Phylogenetic Patterns -- 14. A Framework Theory for Community Assembly -- 15. Competition in Food Webs -- 16. Mean-Field Theory of Resource-Mediated Competition -- 17. Resource-Mediated Competition and Assembly -- 18. Random-Matrix Competition Theory -- 19. Species Richness, Size and Trophic Level -- 20. Consumer-Mediated Competition and Assembly -- 21. Food Chains and Size Spectra -- 22. Structure and Dynamics of PDMM Model Communities -- Part IV. Implications -- 23. Scientific Implications -- 24. Conservation Implications.

ISBN: 9781118502150 1118502159 9781118502174 1118502175

Source: 496098 MIL 959046C0-DDEB-4E64-9991-DEA98B6BC96F OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com

LCCN: 2013018479

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Biodiversity.
Food chains (Ecology)
Ecology--Mathematical models.
NATURE--Ecology.
NATURE--Ecosystems & Habitats--Wilderness.
SCIENCE--Environmental Science.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Ecology.
Biodiversity.
Ecology--Mathematical models.
Food chains (Ecology)

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: QH541.15.B56

Dewey Class. No.: 577/.16