TY - BOOK AU - Rossberg,Axel G. TI - Food webs and biodiversity SN - 9781118502150 AV - QH541.15.B56 U1 - 577/.16 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, UK PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Biodiversity KW - Food chains (Ecology) KW - Ecology KW - Mathematical models KW - NATURE KW - bisacsh KW - Ecosystems & Habitats KW - Wilderness KW - SCIENCE KW - Environmental Science KW - Life Sciences KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Preliminaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Models and Theories -- 3. Some Basic Concepts -- Part II. Elements of Food-Web Models -- 4. Energy and Biomass Budgets -- 5. Allometric Scaling Relationships Between Body Size and Physiological Rates -- 6. Population Dynamics -- 7. From Trophic Interactions to Trophic Link Strengths -- 8. Tropic Niche Space and Trophic Traits -- 9. Community Turnover and Evolution -- 10. The Population-Dynamical Matching Model -- Part III. Mechanisms and Processes -- 11. Basic Characterizations of Link-Strength Distributions -- 12. Diet Partitioning -- 13. Multivariate Link-Strength Distributions and Phylogenetic Patterns -- 14. A Framework Theory for Community Assembly -- 15. Competition in Food Webs -- 16. Mean-Field Theory of Resource-Mediated Competition -- 17. Resource-Mediated Competition and Assembly -- 18. Random-Matrix Competition Theory -- 19. Species Richness, Size and Trophic Level -- 20. Consumer-Mediated Competition and Assembly -- 21. Food Chains and Size Spectra -- 22. Structure and Dynamics of PDMM Model Communities -- Part IV. Implications -- 23. Scientific Implications -- 24. Conservation Implications; ls UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118502181 ER -