Food Webs and Niche Space. (MPB-11) (Monographs in Population Biology) (Monographs in Population Biology, 11) - Tapa blanda

Cohen, Joel E.

 
9780691082028: Food Webs and Niche Space. (MPB-11) (Monographs in Population Biology) (Monographs in Population Biology, 11)
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ISBN 10: 0691082022 ISBN 13: 9780691082028
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1978

Sinopsis

What is the minimum dimension of a niche space necessary to represent the overlaps among observed niches? This book presents a new technique for obtaining a partial answer to this elementary question about niche space. The author bases his technique on a relation between the combinatorial structure of food webs and the mathematical theory of interval graphs. Professor Cohen collects more than thirty food webs from the ecological literature and analyzes their statistical and combinatorial properties in detail. As a result, he is able to generalize: within habitats of a certain limited physical and temporal heterogeneity, the overlaps among niches, along their trophic (feeding) dimensions, can be represented in a one-dimensional niche space far more often than would be expected by chance alone and perhaps always. This compatibility has not previously been noticed. It indicates that real food webs fall in a small subset of the mathematically possible food webs. Professor Cohen discusses other apparently new features of real food webs, including the constant ratio of the number of kinds of prey to the number of kinds of predators in food webs that describe a community. In conclusion he discusses possible extensions and limitations of his results and suggests directions for future research.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
1978
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691082022
ISBN 13 
9780691082028
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Número de páginas
208
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9780691082011: Food Webs and Niche Space (Monographs in Population Biology, 11)

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ISBN 10:  0691082014 ISBN 13:  9780691082011
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1978
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