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Reflecting the recent surge of activity in food web research fueled by new empirical data, this authoritative volume successfully spans and integrates the areas of theory, basic empirical research, applications, and resource problems. Written by recognized leaders from various branches of ecological research, this work provides an in-depth treatment of the most recent advances in the field and examines the compleexity and variability of food webs through reviews, new research, and synthesis of the major in food web research. This book features material on the role of nutrients, detritus and microbes in food webs; indirect effects in food webs, the interaction of productivity and consumption, linking cause and effect in food webs, temporal and spatial scales of food web dynamics, applications of food webs to pest management, fisheries, and ecosystem stress. Three comprehensive chapters synthesize important information on the role of indirect effects, productivity and consumer regulation, and temporal, spatial and life history influences on food webs, in addition, numerous tables, figures, and mathematical equations found nowhere else in related literarure are presented in this outstanding work. This book offers researchers and graduate students in various branches of ecoligy an extensive examination of the subject. Ecologists interested in food webs or community ecology will also find this book aninvaluable tool for understanding the current state of knowledge of food research.
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