Publication

2002-06-15 - University Of Chicago Press

Language

English

Word Count

64,500 words, Guess

Page Count

258 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing2100248

Classifications

  • LCCQH541 .P56 2002

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.

First Sentence

Food webs are diagrams depicting which species in a community interact.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Food WebsPaperbackUniversity Of Chicago Press2002-06-15

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