Energetic Food Webs: An Analysis of Real and Model Ecosystems

by Peter C. de Ruiter and John C. Moore

Book Overview

In ecosystems with many species, food webs form highly complex networks of resource-consumer interactions. At the same time, the food web as itself needs sufficient resources to develop and survive. So in fact, food web ecology is about how natural resources form the basis of biological communities, in terms of species richness and abundances as well as how species are organised in communities on the basis of the resource availability and use. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198566190
• ISBN13: 9780198566199
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages