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100 1 $aSchmitz, Oswald J.
245 10 $aResolving ecosystem complexity /$cOswald J. Schmitz.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2010.
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440 0 $aMonographs in population biology ;$v47
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [143]-166) and index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction -- Philosophical musings -- Explaining contingency: a worldview -- Contingency and emergence -- Preparing the mind for discovery -- Structure of the book -- 2. Conceptualizing ecosystem structure -- Abstracting complexity -- Whole system vs. building blocks approach -- Defining species interaction modules -- Identifying interaction modules in a grassland ecosystem -- Conception of ecosystem structure -- 3. Trophic dynamics: why is the world green? -- Trophic control as an emergent property of resource limitation -- Explaining contingency in trophic control of ecosystem function -- The nature of resource limitation and trophic control of food chains -- The mechanism switching hypothesis of trophic control -- Effects of herbivore feeding mode -- Collective effects of herbivore species with different feeding modes -- Plant-antiherbivore defense and strength of trophic control -- Herbivore resource selection and ecosystem function -- Stoichiometry and herbivore resource use -- Resource selection and ecosystem function -- Herbivore indirect effects and engineering of green worlds -- Herbivore-mediated carnivore indirect effects on ecosystems -- Carnivore indirect effects on plant diversity -- Carnivore indirect effects on ecosystem function -- 4. The green world and the brown chain -- Conceptualizing functions along detritus-based chains -- Resource limitation and trophic control -- Trophic control of decomposition -- Trophic control of mineralization -- Mechanisms of top-down control -- Trophic coupling between detritus-based and plant-based chains -- 5. The evolutionary ecology of trophic control in ecosystems -- Carnivore species and the nature of trophic interactions in an old-field system -- Carnivore hunting mode and the nature of trophic interactions -- The evolutionary ecology of trophic cascades -- 6. The whole and the parts -- Developing predictive theory for emergence -- Contingency and carnivore diversity effects on ecosystems -- Carnivore diversity and emergent effects on ecosystem function -- Shifting down one trophic level: intermediate species diversity and ecosystem function -- Herbivore diversity and mediation of top-down control of ecosystem function -- Detritivore diversity and mediation of top-down control of ecosystem function -- The basal trophic level: plant diversity and ecosystem function -- Functional classifications -- Resource identity effects on trophic interactions -- Moving forward on functional diversity and ecosystem function -- 7. The ecological theater and the evolutionary ecological play -- Phenotypic variation and state-dependent trade-offs -- Attacked plants attract predators -- Predators that avoid predation -- The nonconsumptive basis of trophic transfer efficiencies -- Trophic interactions in a changing theater -- Rapid change in hunting strategy -- Landscapes of fear and ecosystem management.
520 $aSchmitz begins with the universal concept that ecosystems are comprised of species that consume resources and which are then resources for other consumers. From this, he deduces a fundamental rule or evolutionary ecological mechanism for explaining context dependency: individuals within a species trade off foraging gains against the risk of being consumed by predators. Through empirical examples, Schmitz illustrates how species use evolutionary ecological strategies to negotiate a predator-eat-predator world, and he suggests that the implications of species trade-offs are critical to making ecology a predictive science. --from publisher description
650 0 $aBiotic communities.
650 0 $aEcosystem management.
650 0 $aBiodiversity conservation.
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