Adaptive Food Webs (eBook, PDF)

Stability and Transitions of Real and Model Ecosystems
Redaktion: Moore, John C.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting new approaches to studying food webs, this book uses practical management and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem management decisions and the broader issue of sustainability. All the information that readers need to use food web analyses as a tool for understanding and quantifying transition processes is provided. Advancing the idea of food webs as complex adaptive systems, readers are challenged to rethink how changes in environmental conditions affect these systems. Beginning with the current state of thinking about community organisation, complexity and stability, the book moves on to focus on the traits of organisms, the adaptive nature of communities and their impacts on ecosystem function. The final section of the book addresses the applications to management and sustainability. By helping to understand the complexities of multispecies networks, this book provides insights into the evolution of organisms and the fate of ecosystems in a changing world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316879849
• Artikelnr.: 50216231

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Food Webs: Complexity and Stability: 1. Food webs versus
interaction networks: principles, pitfalls and perspectives Carsten F.
Dormann and Nico Blüthgen; 2. What kind of interaction-type diversity
matters for community stability? Michio Kondoh and Akihiko Mougi; 3.
Symmetry, asymmetry and beyond: the crucial role of interaction strength in
the complexity-stability debate Anje-Margriet Neutel and Michael A. S.
Thorne; 4. Ecologically effective population sizes and functional
extinction of species in ecosystems Bo Ebenman, Torbjörn Säterberg and
Stefan Sellman; 5. Merging antagonistic and mutualistic bipartite webs: a
first step to integrate interaction diversity into network approaches Elisa
Thébault, Alix M. C. Sauve and Colin Fontaine; 6. Toward multiplex
ecological networks: accounting for multiple interaction types to
understand community structure and dynamics Sonia Kéfi, Elisa Thébault,
Anna Eklöf, Miguel Lurgi, Andrew J. Davis, Michio Kondoh and Jennifer Adams
Krumins; 7. Unpacking resilience in food webs: an emergent property or a
sum of the parts? R. M. Thompson and Richard Williams; Part II. Food
Webs: From Traits to Ecosystem Functioning: 8. Integrating food-web and
trait-based ecology to investigate biomass-trait-feedbacks Ursula Gaedke
and Toni Klauschies; 9. Including the life cycle in food webs Karin A.
Nilsson, Amanda L. Caskenette, Christian Guill, Martin Hartvig and Floor H.
Soudijn; 10. Importance of trait-related flexibility for food web dynamics
and the maintenance of biodiversity Ursula Gaedke, Beatrix E. Beisner,
Amrei Binzer, Amy Downing, Christian Guill, Toni Klauschies, Jan J. Kuiper,
Floor H. Soudijn and Wolf M. Mooij; 11. Ecological succession investigated
through food web flow networks Antonio Bodini, Cristina Bondavalli and
Giampaolo Rossetti; 12. Statistical approaches for inferring and predicting
food-web architecture Rudolf P. Rohr, Russell E. Naisbit, Christian Mazza
and Louis-Félix Bersier; 13. Global metawebs of spider predation highlight
consequences of land-use change for terrestrial predator-prey networks
Klaus Birkhofer, Eva Diehl, Volkmar Wolters and Henrik G. Smith; 14.
Ecological networks in managed ecosystems: connecting structure to services
Christian Mulder, Valentina Sechi, Guy Woodward and Davib Andrew Bohan; 15.
Trait-based and process-oriented modeling in ecological network dynamics
Marco Scotti, Martin Hartvig, Kirk O. Winemiller, Yuanheng Li, Frank
Jauker, Ferenc Jordán and Carsten Dormann; 16. Empirical methods of
identifying and quantifying trophic interactions for constructing 3 soil
food web models Amber Heijboer, Liliane Ruess, Michael Traugott, Alexandre
Jousset and Peter de Ruiter; Part III. Food Webs and Environmental
Sustainability: 17. Integrating species interaction networks and
biogeography José M. Montoya and Núria Galiana; 18. Food web dynamics when
divergent life history strategies respond to environmental variation
differently: a fisheries ecology perspective Kirk O. Winemiller; 19. Rare
but important: perturbations to uncommon species can have large impact on
the structure of ecological communities Tomas Jonsson, Sofia Berg, Torbjörn
Säterberg, Céline Hauzy and Bo Ebenman; 20. Food web simulations:
stochastic variability and systems-based conservation Ferenc Jordán, Marco
Scotti, and Catherine M. Yule; 21. An individual-based simulation model to
link population, community and metacommunity dynamics Marco Scotti and
Ferenc Jordán; 22. Structural instability of food webs and food-web models
and its implications for management Axel G. Rossberg, Amanda Caskenette and
Louis-Felix Bersier; 23. Linking ecology and epidemiology: the case of
infected resource Sanja Selakovic, Peter de Ruiter and Hans Heesterbeek.