Food Webs
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780226668321
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Science; Nature/Ecology; Science/Mathematics; Ecology; Life Sciences - Ecology; Science / Ecology; Biotic communities; Food chains (Ecology)
First sentence: Food webs are diagrams depicting which species in a community interact.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.