Food Webs /

Food Webs / by Stuart L. Pimm.

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Often the meanings of words are changed subtly for interesting reasons. The implication of the word 'community' has changed from including all the organisms in an area to only those species at a particular trophic level (and often a taxonomically restricted group), for example, 'bird-...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Pimm, Stuart L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1982.
Series:Population and community biology.
Subjects:
Science.
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Food webs
  • 1.1 What and why?
  • 1.2 Where?
  • 1.3 How?
  • 2 Models and their local stability
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Models
  • 2.3 Stability
  • 2.4 Summary
  • Appendix 2A: Taylor's expansion
  • Appendix 2B: An example of calculating eigenvalues
  • Appendix 2C: Jacobian matrices
  • 3 Stability: other definitions
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Global stability
  • 3.3 Species deletion stability
  • 3.4 Stability in stochastic environments
  • 3.5 Other stability criteria
  • 3.6 Summary: models and their stabilities
  • Is there a best buy?
  • 4 Food web complexity I: theoretical results
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Bounds on food web complexity: local stability
  • 4.3 Complexity and stability under large perturbations
  • 4.4 Summary of theoretical results
  • 5 Food web complexity II: empirical results
  • 5.1 Direct tests
  • 5.2 Indirect tests
  • 5.3 Summary
  • 6 The length of food chains
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Hypothesis A: Energy flow
  • 6.3 Hypothesis B: Size and other design constraints
  • 6.4 Hypothesis C: Optimal foraging; why are food chains so long?
  • 6.5 Hypothesis D: Dynamical constraints
  • 6.6 Summary
  • Appendix 6A: Drawing inferences about food web attributes
  • 7 The patterns of omnivory
  • 7.1 Models of omnivory
  • 7.2 Testing the hypotheses
  • 7.3 Summary
  • 8 Compartments
  • 8.1 Reasons for a compartmented design
  • 8.2 Testing the hypotheses: habitats as compartments
  • 8.3 Testing the hypotheses: compartments within habitats
  • 8.4 Four comments
  • 8.5 Summary
  • 9 Descriptive statistics
  • 9.1 Predator
  • prey ratios
  • 9.2 The number of species of prey that a species exploits and the number of species of predator it suffers
  • 9.3 Interval and non-interval food webs
  • 9.4 Summary
  • 10 Food web design: causes and consequences
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Causes
  • 10.3 Consequences
  • 10.4 Summary.

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