Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food WebsMercedes Pascual, Jennifer A. Dunne This book is based on proceedings from a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its contributing chapter authors treat the ecology of predator-prey interactions and food web theory, structure, and dynamics, joining researchers who also work on complex systems and on large nonlinear networks from the points of view of other sub-fields within ecology. Food webs play a central role in the debates on the role of complexity in stability, persistence, and resilience. Better empirical data and the exploding interest in the subject of networks across social, physical, and natural sciences prompted creation of this volume. The book explores the boundaries of what is known of the relationship between structure and dynamics in ecological networks and defines directions for future developments in this field. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
From Small to Large Ecological Networks in a Dynamic World | 3 |
STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS | 25 |
The Network Structure of Food Webs | 27 |
Additional Model Complexity Reduces Fit to Complex FoodWeb Structure | 87 |
Reply to Martinez and Gushing | 91 |
Graph Theory and Food Webs | 93 |
Parasites and Food Webs | 119 |
FoodWeb Structure and Dynamics Reconciling Alternative Ecological Currencies | 209 |
ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS AS EVOLVING ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS | 221 |
Models of FoodWeb Evolution | 223 |
Phenotypic Plasticity and Species Coexistence Modeling Food Webs as Complex Adaptive Systems | 245 |
Exploring the Evolution of Ecosystems with Digital Organisms | 271 |
Network Evolution Exploring the Change and Adaptation of Complex Ecological Systems Over Deep Time | 287 |
STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS | 303 |
Ecological Network Meltdown from Habitat Loss and Fragmentation | 305 |
Sea Lampreys in Great Lakes Food Webs | 137 |
The Structure of PlantAnimal Mutualistic Networks | 143 |
INTEGRATING ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS | 161 |
Diversity Complexity and Persistence in Large Model Ecosystems | 163 |
Exploring Network Space with Genetic Algorithms Modularity Resilience and Reactivity | 187 |
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abundance Amer Animal Ecol approach basal species Bascompte behavior Biodiversity Biol Biology biomass cascade model Cattin Chapter clustering coefficient Complex Food Webs computational Computational Ecology connectance consumers degree distributions density digital organisms diversity Drossel Dunne Ecoinformatics ecological networks ecosystems effects empirical evolutionary evolved example extinction feeding food-web structure functional response genetic algorithm graph habitat loss herbivores increase individual interaction strength J. E. Cohen Lett Little Rock Lake McCann McKane Memmott Mercedes Pascual metabolic Montoya mutualistic N. D. Martinez Nature network evolution network structure niche model niche value nodes nonlinear number of species parameters parasites patterns persistence perturbations phenotypic plasticity Pimm population dynamics predator-prey predators properties random relationship resilience robustness Santa Fe Institute scales sea lampreys Solé spanning tree spatial speciation species interactions species richness stability stochastic structure and dynamics studies theory topology trophic levels types University Press Williams and Martinez Winemiller Yodzis
References to this book
Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications Robert May,Angela R. McLean No preview available - 2007 |