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...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Moore, John C. (HerausgeberIn), Ruiter, Peter Cornelis de 1952- (HerausgeberIn), McCann, Kevin Shear 1964- (HerausgeberIn), Wolters, Volkmar 1953- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Ausgabe:	First published
Schlagworte:	Ökologie Nahrungskette Food chains (Ecology) Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	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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ISBN:	9781316871867
DOI:	10.1017/9781316871867