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Food Webs
Stuart L. Pimm
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Description for Food Webs
Paperback. Although it was first published 20 years ago, Stuart Pimm's "Food Webs" remains a clear introduction to the study of food webs, diagrams depicting which species interact - in other words, who eats whom. Num Pages: 240 pages, 65 line drawings, 24 tables. BIC Classification: PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Although it was first published twenty years ago, Stuart Pimm's Food Webs remains the clearest introduction yet to the study of food webs, diagrams depicting which species interact - in other words, who eats whom. Reviewing various hypotheses in 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 - processes he provides mathematical tools for unraveling (and concrete examples of those tools' application). This edition adds a new foreword covering recent developments in the study of food webs ... Read more
Although it was first published twenty years ago, Stuart Pimm's Food Webs remains the clearest introduction yet to the study of food webs, diagrams depicting which species interact - in other words, who eats whom. Reviewing various hypotheses in 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 - processes he provides mathematical tools for unraveling (and concrete examples of those tools' application). This edition adds a new foreword covering recent developments in the study of food webs ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226668321
SKU
V9780226668321
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99-50
About Stuart L. Pimm
Stuart L. Pimm is professor of ecology in the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University. He is the author of The World According to Pimm; A Scientist Audits the Earth and The Balance of Nature? Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Food Webs
"[An] important and long-needed book....[It] should attract a wide audience and should serve, for years to come, as the basis for new investigations, both theoretical and empirical." - Michael Gllpin, Nature