Food Webs at the Landscape Level
Contributors: Gary A. Polis (Editor); Mary E. Power (Editor); Gary R. Huxel (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 22, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780226673271
Subjects: Biology, Life Sciences; Science: General Issues; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Ecology; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Science / Ecology; General; Food chains (Ecology)
First sentence: Ecologists have long known that all ecosystems receive considerable quantities of materials from outside their boundaries (e.g., Elton 1927), and quantifying the magnitude of such fluxes has long been a central tenet of ecosystem ecology (e.g., Odum 1971).