TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rossberg,Axel G.
TI  - Food webs and biodiversity
SN  - 9781118502150
AV  - QH541.15.B56 
U1  - 577/.16 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, UK
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Biodiversity
KW  - Food chains (Ecology)
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - NATURE
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ecosystems & Habitats
KW  - Wilderness
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Environmental Science
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
UR  - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118502181
ER  -