Food Webs

ISBN: 9780226668321

出版社: University of Chicago Press

出版年: 2002

页数: 240

定价: USD 38.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Although it was first published twenty years ago, Stuart Pimm's Food Webs remains the clearest introduction to the study of the subject. Reviewing various hypotheses in the light of theoretical and empirical evidence, Pimm shows that even the most complex food webs follow certain patterns and that those patterns are shaped by a limited number of biological processes, such as population dynamics and energy flow. Pimm provides a variety of mathematical tools for unravelling these patterns and processes, and demonstrates their application through concrete examples. For this edition, Pimm has written a new foreword covering recent developments in the study of food webs and their continuing importance to conservation biology.

作者简介

Stuart L. Pimm is the Dorris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. He is the Author of ``The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth'' and ``The Balance of Nature? Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities''.

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