{"product_id":"food-webs-mpb-50-kevin-s-mccann-9780691134185","title":"Food Webs (Mpb-50)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHuman impacts are dramatically altering our natural ecosystems but the exact repercussions on ecological sustainability and function remain unclear. As a result, food web theory has experienced a proliferation of research seeking to address these critical areas. Arguing that the various recent and classical food web theories can be looked at collectively and in a highly consistent and testable way, \u003ci\u003eFood Webs\u003c\/i\u003e synthesizes and reconciles modern and classical perspectives into a general unified theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Kevin McCann brings together outcomes from population-, community-, and ecosystem-level approaches under the common currency of energy or material fluxes. He shows that these approaches--often studied in isolation--all have the same general implications in terms of population dynamic stability. Specifically, increased fluxes of energy or material tend to destabilize populations, communities, and whole ecosystems. With this understanding, stabilizing structures at different levels of the ecological hierarchy can be identified and any population-, community-, or ecosystem-level structures that mute energy or material flow also stabilize systems dynamics. McCann uses this powerful general framework to discuss the effects of human impact on the stability and sustainability of ecological systems, and he demonstrates that there is clear empirical evidence that the structures supporting ecological systems have been dangerously eroded. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Uniting the latest research on food webs with classical theories, this book will be a standard source in the understanding of natural food web functions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin S. McCann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691134189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691134185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2012","brand":"Kevin S. McCann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925611577599,"sku":"9780691134185","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_85d769b5-ded4-47b0-8c58-9f1a2cd92683.jpg?v=1681078301","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/food-webs-mpb-50-kevin-s-mccann-9780691134185","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}