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Ecological Networks
Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs

Edited by Mercedes Pascual and Jennifer A. Dunne

Price: £37.99 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-518816-5
Publication date: 26 January 2006
416 pages, 3 halftones, 53 line illus., 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 mm
Series: Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity
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This book is based on proceedings from a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its contributing chapter authors treat the ecology of predator-prey interactions and food web theory, structure, and dynamics, joining researchers who also work on complex systems and on large nonlinear networks from the points of view of other sub-fields within ecology. Food webs play a central role in the debates on the role of complexity in stability, persistence, and resilience. Better empirical data and the exploding interest in the subject of networks across social, physical, and natural sciences prompted creation of this volume. The book explores the boundaries of what is known of the relationship between structure and dynamics in ecological networks and defines directions for future developments in this field.

Contents

Preface , M. Pascual and J. A. Dunne

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. From Small to Large Ecological Networks in a Dynamic World , M. Pascual and J. A. Dunne

PART II: STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS

2. The Network Structure of Food Webs , J. A. Dunne

3. Graph Theory and Food Webs , C. C. Cartozo, G. Garlaschelli, and G. Caldarelli

4. Parasites and Food Webs , A. Dobson, K. Lafferty, and A. Kuris

5. The Structure of Plant-Animal Mutualistic Networks , J. Bascompte and P. Jordano

PART III: INTEGRATING ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

6. Diversity, Complexity, and Persistance in Large Model Ecosystems , N. D. Martinez, R. J. Williams, and J. A. Dunne

7. Exploring Network Space with Genetic Algorithms Modularity, Resilience, and Reactivity

8. Food-Web Structure and Dynamics: Reconciling Alternative Ecological Currencies , J. F. Gillooly, A. P. Allen, and J. H. Brown

PART IV: ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS AS EVOLVING, ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

9. Models of Food-Web Evolution , A. J. McKane and B. Drossel

10. Phenotypic Plasticity and Species Coexistence: Modeling Food Webs as Complex Adaptive Systems , S. D. Peacor, R. L. Riolo, and M. Pascual

11. Exploring the Evolution of Ecosystems with Digital Organisms , C. O. Wilke and S. S. Chow

12. Network Evolution: Exploring the Change and Adaptation of Complex Ecological Systems over Deep Time , N. D. Martinez

PART V: STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS

13. Ecological Network Meltdown from Habitat Loss and Fragmentatino , R. V. Solé and J. M. Montoya

14. Biodiversity Loss and Ecological Network Structure , J. Memmott, David Alonso, E. L. Berlow, A. Dobson, J. A. Dunne, R. V. Solé, and J. Weitz

15. Challenges for the Future: Integrating Ecological Structure and Dynamics , M. Pascual, J. A. Dunne, and S. A. Levin

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Mercedes Pascual, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan and
Jennifer A. Dunne, Visiting Professor, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Applied ecology
Biology, life sciences
Ecological science, the Biosphere
Non-linear science

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Ecological NetworksLinking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs

Ecological Networks
Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs