Food Webs (MPB-50) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food Webs (MPB-50) write by Kevin S. McCann. This book was released on 2012. Food Webs (MPB-50) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book synthesizes and reconciles modern and classical perspectives into a general unified theory.
Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems. (MPB-42)
Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems. (MPB-42) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems. (MPB-42) write by Ricard V. Solé. This book was released on 2006-03-26. Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems. (MPB-42) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describing a theoretical view of ecosystems based on how they self-organise to produce complex patterns, this book focuses on very simple models that despite their simplicity encapsulate fundamental properties of how ecosystems work.
Keywords for Environmental Studies
Keywords for Environmental Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Keywords for Environmental Studies write by Joni Adamson. This book was released on 2016-02-26. Keywords for Environmental Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Keywords for Environmental Studies analyzes the central terms and debates currently structuring the most exciting research in and across environmental studies, including the environmental humanities, environmental social sciences, sustainability sciences, and the sciences of nature. Sixty essays from humanists, social scientists, and scientists, each written about a single term, reveal the broad range of quantitative and qualitative approaches critical to the state of the field today. From “ecotourism” to “ecoterrorism,” from “genome” to “species,” this accessible volume illustrates the ways in which scholars are collaborating across disciplinary boundaries to reach shared understandings of key issues—such as extreme weather events or increasing global environmental inequities— in order to facilitate the pursuit of broad collective goals and actions. This book underscores the crucial realization that every discipline has a stake in the central environmental questions of our time, and that interdisciplinary conversations not only enhance, but are requisite to environmental studies today."--pub. desc.
The Phytochemical Landscape
The Phytochemical Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Phytochemical Landscape write by Mark D. Hunter. This book was released on 2016-08-09. The Phytochemical Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions, including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. At the same time, such interactions feed back to influence spatial and temporal variation in the chemistry of plants. In this book, Mark Hunter provides a novel approach to linking the trophic interactions of organisms with the cycling of nutrients in ecosystems. Hunter introduces the concept of the "phytochemical landscape"—the shifting spatial and temporal mosaic of plant chemistry that serves as the nexus between trophic interactions and nutrient dynamics. He shows how plant chemistry is both a cause and consequence of trophic interactions, and how it also mediates ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling. Nutrients and organic molecules in plant tissues affect decomposition rates and the fluxes of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. The availability of these same nutrients influences the chemistry of cells and tissues that plants produce. In combination, these feedback routes generate pathways by which trophic interactions influence nutrient dynamics and vice versa, mediated through plant chemistry. Hunter provides evidence from terrestrial and aquatic systems for each of these pathways, and describes how a focus on the phytochemical landscape enables us to better understand and manage the ecosystems in which we live. Essential reading for students and researchers alike, this book offers an integrated approach to population-, community-, and ecosystem-level ecological processes.
Theoretical Ecology
Theoretical Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theoretical Ecology write by Kevin S. McCann. This book was released on 2020-04-29. Theoretical Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theoretical Ecology: concepts and applications continues the authoritative and established sequence of theoretical ecology books initiated by Robert M. May which helped pave the way for ecology to become a more robust theoretical science, encouraging the modern biologist to better understand the mathematics behind their theories. This latest instalment builds on the legacy of its predecessors with a completely new set of contributions. Rather than placing emphasis on the historical ideas in theoretical ecology, the Editors have encouraged each contribution to: synthesize historical theoretical ideas within modern frameworks that have emerged in the last 10-20 years (e.g. bridging population interactions to whole food webs); describe novel theory that has emerged in the last 20 years from historical empirical areas (e.g. macro-ecology); and finally to cover the rapidly expanding area of theoretical ecological applications (e.g. disease theory and global change theory). The result is a forward-looking synthesis that will help guide the field through a further decade of discovery and development. It is written for upper level undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers seeking synthesis and the state of the art in growing areas of interest in theoretical ecology, genetics, evolutionary ecology, and mathematical biology.
