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Meta-Ecosystem Dynamics : Understanding Ecosystems Through the Transformation and Movement of Matter / by Frederic Guichard, Justin Marleau.
Springer Nature - Springer Mathematics and Statistics eBooks 2021 English International Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guichard, Frederic, author.
- Marleau, Justin, author.
- Series:
- Lecture Notes on Mathematical Modelling in the Life Sciences, 2193-4797
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics.
- Biotic communities.
- Ecology--Methodology.
- Ecology.
- Population biology.
- Biodiversity.
- Ecosystems.
- Ecological Modelling.
- Community and Population Ecology.
- Local Subjects:
- Mathematics.
- Ecosystems.
- Ecological Modelling.
- Community and Population Ecology.
- Biodiversity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (112 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
- Summary:
- This book presents current meta-ecosystem models and their derivation from classical ecosystem and metapopulation theories. Specifically, it reviews recent modelling efforts that have emphasized the role of nonlinear dynamics on spatial and food web networks, and which have cast their implications within the context of spatial synchrony and ecological stoichiometry. It suggests that these recent advances naturally lead to a generalization of meta-ecosystem theories to spatial fluxes of matter that have both a trophic and non-trophic impact on species. Ecosystem dynamics refers to the cycling of matter and energy across ecological compartments through processes such as consumption and recycling. Spatial dynamics established its ecological roots with metapopulation theories and focuses on scaling up local ecological processes through the limited movement of individuals and matter. Over the last 15 years, theories integrating ecosystem and spatial dynamics have quickly coalesced into meta-ecosystem theories, the focus of this book. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers who wish to learn more about the synthesis of ecosystem and spatial dynamics, which form the foundation of the theory of meta-ecosystems. .
- Contents:
- Preface. - 1 Introduction: General ecosystem dynamics
- 2 Meta-ecosystems
- 3 Nonlinear meta-ecosystem dynamics
- 4 Diversity of meta-ecosystems: spatial topologies, species diversity, stoichiometries and non-trophic flues
- 5 Conclusions
- References.
- Notes:
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 3-030-83454-9
- OCLC:
- 1269482449
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