CHAPTER TEN. Classic Food Web Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Part 1. The Problem and the Approach
5. CHAPTER ONE. The Balance of Nature: What Is It and Why Care? 3
6. CHAPTER TWO. A Primer for Dynamical Systems 20
7. CHAPTER THREE. Of Modules, Motifs, and Whole Webs 47
8. Part 2. Food Web Modules: From Populations to Small Food Webs
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Excitable and Nonexcitable Population Dynamics 53
10. CHAPTER FIVE. Consumer-Resource Dynamics: Building Consumptive Food Webs 67
11. CHAPTER SIX. Lagged Consumer-Resource Dynamics 89
12. CHAPTER SEVEN. Food Chains and Omnivory 103
13. CHAPTER EIGHT. More Modules 123
14. Part 3. Toward Whole Systems
15. CHAPTER NINE. Coupling Modules in Space: A Landscape Theory 145
16. CHAPTER TEN. Classic Food Web Theory 170
17. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Adding the Ecosystem 189
18. CHAPTER TWELVE. Food Webs as Complex Adaptive Systems 201
19. Bibliography 219
20. Index 235