Multitrophic Level Interactions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521791103 ISBN 13: 9780521791106

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The multitrophic level approach to ecology addresses the complexity of food webs much more realistically than the traditional focus on simple systems and interactions. Only in the last twenty years have ecologists become interested in the nature of more complex systems including tritrophic interactions between plants, herbivores, and natural enemies. These interactions are explored in this exciting new volume by expert researchers from a variety of ecological fields. This book provides a much-needed synthesis of multitrophic level interactions and serves as a guide for future research for ecologists of all descriptions.

About this title

Book Description:

Multitrophic Level Interactions provides an important update into the fast growing field of community ecology. Addressing interactions between plants, plant feeders and natural enemies, it focuses on habitat conditions where multitrophic interactions are important and determines the relative importance of top-down effects (control by predators) and bottom-up effects (control by resources). It will be an important guide to future research in all ecological disciplines.

About the Author:

Teja Tscharntke is Professor of Agroecology at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research focus is on plant-herbivore-enemy interactions including parasitism, predation and pollination, insect communities and food webs on a landscape scale and temperate-tropical comparisons. He is editor-in-chief of Basic and Applied Ecology and a member of the editorial board of Oecologia.

Bradford A. Hawkins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. His research focus is on the biology and ecology of insect parasitoids, insect community ecology, food webs and energy-diversity theory. He is the author of Pattern and Process in Host-Parasitoid Interactions (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and editor of Parasitoid Community Ecology (1994, with William Sheenan) and Theoretical Approaches to Biological Control (Cambridge University Press, 1999, with Howard V. Cornell).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521791103
• ISBN 13: 9780521791106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Tscharntke Teja, Hawkins Bradford A.