Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs

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Mercedes Pascual, Jennifer A. Dunne
Oxford University Press, 22.12.2005 - 416 Seiten
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.
 

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Parasites and Food Webs
B STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS
Box A Additional Model Complexity Reduces
Graph Theory and Food Webs
The Structure of PlantAnimal Mutualistic Networks
INTEGRATING ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE
Exploring Network Space with Genetic Algorithms
Reconciling Alternative
Modeling
Exploring the Evolution of Ecosystems with Digital
Exploring the Change and Adaptation
E STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF ECOLOGICAL
Biodiversity Loss and Ecological Network Structure
Integrating Ecological Structure
Index
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ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS AS EVOLVING ADAPTIVE

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