TY - BOOK ID - 78108530 TI - Energetic food webs : an analysis of real and model ecosystems AU - Moore, John C. AU - De Ruiter, Peter Cornelis PY - 2012 SN - 128357702X 9786613889478 0191646415 9780191646416 9781283577021 9780198566182 0198566182 9780198566199 0198566190 9780191774683 0191774685 0191646423 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Coral reef ecology. KW - Food chains (Ecology). KW - Science -- Experiments. KW - Science -- Study and teaching. KW - General ecology and biosociology KW - Food chains (Ecology) KW - Ecology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78108530 AB - This novel book bridges the gap between the energetic and species approaches to studying food webs, addressing many important topics in ecology. Species, matter, and energy are common features of all ecological systems. Through the lens of complex adaptive systems thinking, the authors explore how the inextricable relationship between species, matter, and energy can explain how systems are structured and how they persist in real and model systems. Food webs are viewed as open anddynamic systems. The central theme of the book is that the basis of ecosystem persistence and stability rests on the ER -