Aquatic Food Webs
An Ecosystem Approach
Edited by Andrea Belgrano, Ursula M. Scharler, Jennifer Dunne, and Robert E. Ulanowicz
Price: £47.50 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-856483-6
Publication date: 7 April 2005
272 pages, 8 color plates, 65 halftones, 246x189 mm
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| Reviews |
| - 'This book gives a good background for all those interested in the theory and modelling aspects of aquatic food webs. There are certainly lessons to be learnt here for many. Journal of Plankton Research, Volume 28, Number 10' -
- 'This is an important synthesis for foodweb ecologists to read and an accessible text for other ecologists. Mark Young, Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2006, 37:1' -
- 'Graduate students and professionals interested in communities and ecosystems, particularly those who work on food webs or in aquatic systems, will be well served to take a look at this book. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, April 2006.' -
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| Description | | - Synthesizes recent theoretical and empirical advances in food web theory
- Organized around three major research agendas: ecosystem structure and function, food web theories, and ecosystem diversity and stability
- Brings together two previously separate schools of food web research - classical food web theory and network analysis - to provide an overview of both qualitative and quantitative food web analyses
- Food webs are currently a key topic in ecology, and are likely to remain so
- Contains contributions from some of the leading names in the field
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This volume provides a current synthesis of theoretical and empirical food web research. Whether they are binary systems or weighted networks, food webs are of particular interest to ecologists in providing a macroscopic view of ecosystems. They describe interactions between species and their environment, and subsequent advances in the understanding of their structure, function, and dynamics
are of vital importance to ecosystem management and conservation. Aquatic Food Webs
provides a synthesis of the current issues in food web theory and its applications, covering issues of structure, function, scaling, complexity, and stability in the contexts of conservation, fisheries, and climate. Although the focus of this volume is upon aquatic food webs (where many of the recent advances
have been made), any ecologist with an interest in food web theory and its applications will find the issues addressed in this book of value and use. This advanced textbook is suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in community, ecosystem, and theoretical ecology, in aquatic ecology, and in conservation biology.
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Readership: An advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in community/ecosystem/theoretical ecology, aquatic biology and conservation biology.
| Contents |
Foreword
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Michael Loreau
Introduction
1. Structure and Function
1.
Biosimplicity via stoichiometry: the evolution of food-web structure and processes
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James J. Elser and Dag O. Hessen
2.
Spatial structure and dynamics in a marine food web
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Carlos J. Melian, Jordi Bascompte, and Pedro Jordano
3.
Role of network analysis in comparative ecosystem ecology of estuaries
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Robert R. Christian, Daniel Baird, Joseph Luczkovich, Jeffrey C. Johnson, Ursula Scharler, and Robert E. Ulanowicz
4.
Food webs in lakes - seasonal dynamics and impact of climate variability
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Dietmar Straile
5.
Pattern and process in food webs: evidence from running waters
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Guy Woodward, Ross Thompson, Colin R Townsend, and Alan G Hildrew
2. Examining food web theories
6.
Some random thoughts on the statistical analysis of food web data
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Andrew R. Solow
7.
Analysis of size and complexity of randomly constructed food webs by information theoretic metrics
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James T. Morris, Robert R. Christian, and Robert E. Ulanowicz
8.
Size-based analyses of aquatic food webs
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Simon Jennings
9.
Complexity in aquatic food webs: an ecosystem approach
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Jason S. Link, William T. Stockhausen, and Elizabeth T. Methratta
3. Stability and diversity in food webs
10.
Modelling food-web dynamics: complexity-stability implications
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Jennifer A. Dunne, Ulrich Brose, Richard J. Williams and Neo D. Martinez
11.
Is biodiversity maintained by food-web complexity? - The adaptive food-web hypothesis
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Michio Kondoh
12.
Climate forcing, food web structure, and community dynamics in pelagic marine ecosystems
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L. Ciannelli, D.O. Hjermann, P. Lehodey, G. Ottersen, J.T. Duffy-Anderson, N.C. Stenseth
13.
Food web theory provides guidelines for marine conservation
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Enric Sala and George Sugihara
14.
Biodiversity and aquatic food webs
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Helmut Hillebrand and Jonathan B. Shurin
4. Concluding remarks
15.
Ecological network analysis: an escape from the machine
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Robert E. Ulanowicz
Afterword
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Mathew Leibold
References
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Andrea Belgrano, National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
Ursula M. Scharler, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, University of Maryland,
Jennifer Dunne, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, and
Robert E. Ulanowicz, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland
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