DYNAMIC FOOD WEBS: MULTISPECIES ASSEMBLAGES, ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Academic Press eBooksPublished 1 January 2005
Peter C de Ruiter and Volkmar Wolters
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These dynamics are shown to be strongly interrelated governing food web structure and stability and the role of populations and communities play in ecosystem functioning.
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Dynamic Food Webs challenges us to rethink what factors may determine ecological and evolutionary pathways of food web development. It touches upon the intriguing idea that trophic interactions drive patterns and dynamics at different levels of biological organization: dynamics in species composition, dynamics in population life-history parameters and abundances, and dynamics in individual growth, size and behavior. These dynamics are shown to be strongly interrelated governing food web structure and stability and the role of populations and communities play in ecosystem functioning.
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