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Author:   Andrea Belgrano (, National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) ,  Ursula M. Scharler (, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, University of Maryland, USA) ,  Jennifer Dunne (, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA) ,  Robert E. Ulanowicz (, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.647kg
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9780198564836

ISBN 10:   019856483
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   07 April 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Michel Loreau: Foreword Introduction 1. Structure and Function 1: James J. Elser and Dag O. Hessen: Biosimplicity via stoichiometry: the evolution of food-web structure and processes 2: Carlos J. Melián, Jordi Bascompte, and Pedro Jordano: Spatial structure and dynamics in a marine food web 3: Robert R. Christian, Daniel Baird, Joseph Luczkovich, Jeffrey C. Johnson, Ursula Scharler, and Robert E. Ulanowicz: Role of network analysis in comparative ecosystem ecology of estuaries 4: Dietmar Straile: Food webs in lakes - seasonal dynamics and impact of climate variability 5: Guy Woodward, Ross Thompson, Colin R Townsend, and Alan G Hildrew: Pattern and process in food webs: evidence from running waters 2. Examining food web theories 6: Andrew R. Solow: Some random thoughts on the statistical analysis of food web data 7: James T. Morris, Robert R. Christian, and Robert E. Ulanowicz: Analysis of size and complexity of randomly constructed food webs by information theoretic metrics 8: Simon Jennings: Size-based analyses of aquatic food webs 9: Jason S. Link, William T. Stockhausen, and Elizabeth T. Methratta: Complexity in aquatic food webs: an ecosystem approach 3. Stability and diversity in food webs 10: Jennifer A. Dunne, Ulrich Brose, Richard J. Williams and Neo D. Martinez: Modelling food-web dynamics: complexity-stability implications 11: Michio Kondoh: Is biodiversity maintained by food-web complexity? - The adaptive food-web hypothesis 12: L. Ciannelli, D.Ø. Hjermann, P. Lehodey, G. Ottersen, J.T. Duffy-Anderson, N.C. Stenseth: Climate forcing, food web structure, and community dynamics in pelagic marine ecosystems 13: Enric Sala and George Sugihara: Food web theory provides guidelines for marine conservation 14: Helmut Hillebrand and Jonathan B. Shurin: Biodiversity and aquatic food webs 4. Concluding remarks 15: Robert E. Ulanowicz: Ecological network analysis: an escape from the machine Mathew Leibold: Afterword References Index

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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.

Author Information

Andrea Belgrano is a Researcher at the National Center for Genome Resources, University of New Mexico. Ursula Scharler is a Fellow of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center at the University of Maryland. Jennifer Dunne is an ecologist with interests in computational ecology and ecoinformatics. She is a co-founder and the assistant director of the Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, a visiting researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, and a principal investigator at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Robert E. Ulanowicz is Professor of Theoretical Ecology with the University of Maryland's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. His current interests include network analysis of trophic exchanges in ecosystems, information theory as applied to ecological systems, the thermodynamics of living systems, causality in living systems, and modelling subtropical wetland ecosystems in Florida and Belize .

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