Title Statements
- Full title :Resolving ecosystem complexity / Oswald J. Schmitz.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xvi, 173 pages) : : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780691128481, 0691128480, 9780691128498, 0691128499
- oclc:ocn657204968
- LC Classification:QH541
- Dewey Decimal:577.8/2
Table of Contents
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 function -- The nature of resource limitation and trophic control of food chains -- The mechanism switching hypothesis of trophic control -- Effects of herbivore feeding mode -- Collective effects of herbivore species with different feeding modes -- Plant-antiherbivore defense and strength of trophic control -- Herbivore resource selection and ecosystem function -- Stoichiometry and herbivore resource use -- Resource selection and ecosystem function -- Herbivore indirect effects and engineering of green worlds -- Herbivore-mediated carnivore indirect effects on ecosystems -- Carnivore indirect effect…
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