Food webs and biodiversity - Rossberg, Axel G., 1969-; Wiley eBooks (Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
John Wiley and Sons
Keywords: 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); Electronic books