Mccann, Kevin S.
Food Webs
- ISBN 13:
- 9780691134185
- author:
- Mccann, Kevin S.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 centimetres
- Genre:
- Science, Biology, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Food Webs synthesizes and reconciles modern and classical perspectives into a general unified theory, arguing that various food web theories can be looked at collectively in a highly consistent and testable way. Kevin McCann brings together outcomes from population-, community-, and ecosystem-level approaches under the common currency of energy or material fluxes. He shows that these approaches have the same general implications in terms of population dynamic stability: increased fluxes of energy or material tend to destabilize populations, communities, and whole ecosystems. This understanding is used to discuss the effects of human impact on the stability and sustainability of ecological systems, revealing clear empirical evidence that structures supporting ecological systems have been dangerously eroded. This book will be a standard source in the understanding of natural food web functions, uniting the latest research with classical theories.
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