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Author: Andrew Solway Publisher: Raintree ISBN: 1406232602 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
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Food Chains and Webs explains that feeding relationships are at the heart of life on Earth. It looks at the different types of living thing in a food web - from producer to top consumer - as well as food pyramids and topics like bioaccumulation. It tackles common confusions about the science and shows how topics are relevant to the reader.
Author: Gary A. Polis Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461570077 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 475
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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 complexity and variability of food webs through reviews, new research, and syntheses of the major issues in food web research. Food Webs 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 literature are presented in this outstanding work. Food Webs offers researchers and graduate students in various branches of ecology an extensive examination of the subject. Ecologists interested in food webs or community ecology will also find this book an invaluable tool for understanding the current state of knowledge of food web research.
Author: Kelley MacAulay Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778719472 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Children will enjoy exploring the vast prairies of North America in Prairie Food Chains. Young readers will learn about the different types of prairie habitats, how animals get the nutrients they need, and the fascinating adaptation some prairie animals undergo to survive in their habitats.
Author: Stuart L. Pimm Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226668321 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 268
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Food webs are diagrams depicting which species interact or in other words, who eats whom. An understanding of the structure and function of food webs is crucial for any study of how an ecosystem works, including attempts to predict which communities might be more vulnerable to disturbance and therefore in more immediate need of conservation. Although it was first published twenty years ago, Stuart Pimm's Food Webs remains the clearest introduction to the study of food webs. 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, he has written a new foreword covering recent developments in the study of food webs and demonstrates their continuing importance to conservation biology.
Author: Bobbie Kalman Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780865058767 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Starting with the sun, food chains link together plants and animals in various ecosystems to help them survive. Kids will be fascinated by these chains and their own links to the natural world.
Author: Ella Hawley Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1448865174 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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Explains the predator-prey relationships that all living things are a part of, represented by the food chains and food webs in a variety of habitats, how everything is connected, and how every living organism plays a role.
Author: Suzanne Buckingham Slade Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1543599389 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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The Great Barrier ReefĂ teems with life. From algae to a grey reef shark, the animals in this book are linked together in a food chain. Each one of them needs the others in order to live. Find out what eats what in the ocean!
Author: Gerd-Joachim Krauss Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 3527316507 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 442
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The first stand-alone textbook for at least ten years on this increasingly hot topic in times of global climate change and sustainability in ecosystems. Ecological biochemistry refers to the interaction of organisms with their abiotic environment and other organisms by chemical means. Biotic and abiotic factors determine the biochemical flexibility of organisms, which otherwise easily adapt to environmental changes by altering their metabolism. Sessile plants, in particular, have evolved intricate biochemical response mechanisms to fit into a changing environment. This book covers the chemistry behind these interactions, bottom up from the atomic to the system's level. An introductory part explains the physico-chemical basis and biochemical roots of living cells, leading to secondary metabolites as crucial bridges between organisms and the respective ecosystem. The focus then shifts to the biochemical interactions of plants, fungi and bacteria within terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with the aim of linking biochemical insights to ecological research, also in human-influenced habitats. A section is devoted to methodology, which allows network-based analyses of molecular processes underlying systems phenomena. A companion website offering an extended version of the introductory chapter on Basic Biochemical Roots is available at http://www.wiley.com/go/Krauss/Nies/EcologicalBiochemistry
Author: Patricia Lauber
Author: Patricia Lauber
Author: Andrew Solway
Author: Gary A. Polis
Author: Kelley MacAulay
Author: Stuart L. Pimm
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Author: Ella Hawley
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Author: Suzanne Buckingham Slade
Author: Gerd-Joachim Krauss