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Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs

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  • © 1992

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Authors:
  1. D. L. DeAngelis

    1. Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA

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Part of the book series: Population and Community Biology Series (PCBS, volume 9)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • D. L. DeAngelis
    Pages 1-16

  3. General concepts of nutrient flux and stability

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    Pages 17-37

  4. Nutrients and autotrophs

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    Pages 38-62

  5. Nutrients and autotrophs: variable internal nutrient levels

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    Pages 63-80

  6. Effects of nutrients on autotroph-herbivore interactions

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    Pages 81-107

  7. Herbivores and nutrient recycling

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    Pages 108-122

  8. Nutrient interactions of detritus and decomposers

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    Pages 123-141

  9. Nutrient limitation and food webs

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    Pages 142-163

  10. Competition and nutrients

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    Pages 164-185

  11. Temporally varying driving forces and nutrient-limited food webs

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    Pages 186-208

  12. Effects of spatial extent

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    Pages 209-225

  13. Implications for global change

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    Pages 226-236

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 237-270
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About this book

In all fields of science today, data are collected and theories are developed and published faster than scientists can keep up with, let alone thoroughly digest. In ecology the fact that practitioners tend to be divided between such subdisciplines as aquatic and terrestrial ecology, as well as between popula­ tion, community, and ecosystem ecology, makes it even harder for them to keep up with all relevant research. Ecologists specializing in one sub­ discipline are not always aware of progress in another subdiscipline that relates to their own. Syntheses are frequently needed that pull together large bodies of information and organize them in ways that makes them more coherent, and thus more understandable. I have tried to perform this task of integration for the subject area that encompasses the interrelationships between the dynamics of ecological food webs and the cycling of nutrients. I believe this area cuts across many of the subdisciplines of ecology and is pivotal to our progress in understanding ecosystems and in dealing with human impacts on the environment. Many current ecological problems involve human disturbances of both food webs and the nutrients that cycle through them. Little progress can be made towards elucidating the complex feedback relations inherent in the study of nutrient cycles in ecological systems without the tools of mathematics and computer modelling. These tools are therefore liberally used throughout the book.

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From the foreword by Stuart L. Pimm
This is a major investigation into the nature of ecosystem processes and provides both an up-to-date summary of the state of ecosystem ecology and a clear statement of how the field should develop in the future.
`Fort bien présenté.... Cet ouvrage sera utile à tous les spécialistes d'écologie...'
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`Attention to detail, a careful choice of order in which themes are analyzed and a gradual increase in complexity, will make this book an ideal graduate textbook on the subject - Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs.'

Authors and Affiliations

  • Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA

    D. L. DeAngelis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs

  • Authors: D. L. DeAngelis

  • Series Title: Population and Community Biology Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2342-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. L. De Angelis 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-29840-0Published: 31 October 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2342-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 288

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Ecology

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