Screen LibraryResolving ecosystem complexity
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Monographs in population biology ; 47 |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 173 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780691128481 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691128480 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780691128498 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0691128499 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | Q16 |
| CLC: | Q16 |
| Call Number: | Q16/S347 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-166) and index. 1. Introduction -- Philosophical musings -- Explaining contingency: a worldview -- Contingency and emergence -- Preparing the mind for discovery -- Structure of the book -- 2. Conceptualizing ecosystem structure -- Abstracting complexity -- Whole system vs. building blocks approach -- Defining species interaction modules -- Identifying interaction modules in a grassland ecosystem -- Conception of ecosystem structure -- 3. Trophic dynamics: why is the world green? -- Trophic control as an emergent property of resource limitation -- Explaining contingency in trophic control of ecosystem functi |