{"product_id":"9780470973554","title":"Food Webs and Biodiversity: Foundations, Models, Data","description":"\u003ch1\u003eFood Webs and Biodiversity: Foundations, Models, Data\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eRossberg, Axel G.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFood webs have now been addressed in empirical and theoretical research for more than 50 years. Yet, even elementary foundational issues are still hotly debated. One difficulty is that a multitude of processes need to be taken into account to understand the patterns found empirically in the structure of food webs and communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood Webs and Biodiversity\u003c\/i\u003e develops a fresh, comprehensive perspective on food webs. Mechanistic explanations for several known macroecological patterns are derived from a few fundamental concepts, which are quantitatively linked to field-observables. An argument is developed that food webs will often be the key to understanding patterns of biodiversity at  community level.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKey Features:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePredicts generic characteristics of ecological communities in invasion-extirpation equilibrium.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGeneralizes the theory of competition to food webs with arbitrary topologies.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a new, testable quantitative theory for the mechanisms determining species richness in food webs, and other new results.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by an internationally respected expert in the field.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith global warming and other pressures on ecosystems rising, understanding and protecting biodiversity is a cause of international concern. This highly topical book will be of interest to a wide ranging audience, including not only graduate students and practitioners in community and conservation ecology but also the complex-systems research community as well as mathematicians and physicists interested in the theory of networks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a comprehensive work outlining a large array of very novel and potentially game-changing ideas in food web ecology.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ken Haste Andersen\u003c\/b\u003e, Technical University of Denmark\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I believe that this will be a landmark book in community ecology … it presents a well-established and consistent mathematical theory of food-webs. It is testable in many ways and the author finds remarkable agreements between predictions and reality.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGéza Meszéna\u003c\/b\u003e, Eötvös University, Budapest\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Wiley\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2013-08-05\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780470973554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 252.70cm x176.50cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 396\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44315299577996,"sku":"9780470973554","price":89.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780470973554.jpg?v=1771987201","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780470973554","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}