Food Webs at the Landscape Level - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226673278 ISBN 13: 9780226673271

Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2004

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Scientists rely on food webs--complex networks that trace the flow of nutrients and energy between species and through ecosystems--to understand the infrastructure of ecological communities.

But given the complexities of food webs--think of following the flow of nutrients through the microbes, fungi, roots, worms, ants, and birds that pass over or through a single cubic meter of prairie soil--it's not difficult to see why most experiments on food-web dynamics focus on small, local habitats. Yet as this book convincingly shows, important insights come when scientists expand the temporal and spatial scope of their research to look at the ways energy, organisms, nutrients, and pollutants flow not just at the local level, but across whole landscapes--between and among food webs in a wide variety of habitats.

Paying special attention to the fertile boundaries between terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, Food Webs at the Landscape Level not only shows what this new methodology means for ecology, conservation, and agriculture but also serves as a fitting tribute to Gary Polis and his major contributions to the field.

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Gary A. Polis was a professor in and chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at the University of California, Davis, at the time of his death in 2000.

Mary E. Power is a professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Gary R. Huxel is an assistant professor of biology at the University of South Florida.

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Scientists rely on food webs--complex networks that trace the flow of nutrients and energy between species and through ecosystems--to understand the infrastructure of ecological communities.

But given the complexities of food webs--think of following the flow of nutrients through the microbes, fungi, roots, worms, ants, and birds that pass over or through a single cubic meter of prairie soil--it's not difficult to see why most experiments on food-web dynamics focus on small, local habitats. Yet as this book convincingly shows, important insights come when scientists expand the temporal and spatial scope of their research to look at the ways energy, organisms, nutrients, and pollutants flow not just at the local level, but across whole landscapes--between and among food webs in a wide variety of habitats.

Paying special attention to the fertile boundaries between terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, Food Webs at the Landscape Level not only shows what this new methodology means for ecology, conservation, and agriculture but also serves as a fitting tribute to Gary Polis and his major contributions to the field.

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Scientists rely on food webs complex networks that trace the flow of nutrients and energy between species and through ecosystems to understand the infrastructure of ecological communities.

But given the complexities of food webs think of following the flow of nutrients through the microbes, fungi, roots, worms, ants, and birds that pass over or through a single cubic meter of prairie soil it's not difficult to see why most experiments on food-web dynamics focus on small, local habitats. Yet as this book convincingly shows, important insights come when scientists expand the temporal and spatial scope of their research to look at the ways energy, organisms, nutrients, and pollutants flow not just at the local level, but across whole landscapes between and among food webs in a wide variety of habitats.

Paying special attention to the fertile boundaries between terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems,Food Webs at the Landscape Level not only shows what this new methodology means for ecology, conservation, and agriculture but also serves as a fitting tribute to Gary Polis and his major contributions to the field.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226673278
• ISBN 13: 9780226673271
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
• Herausgeber: Polis Gary A., Power Mary E., Huxel Gary R.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press; https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html; ; 5801 S. Ellis Avenue; Chicago; IL; 60637; USA
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