Community Food Webs: Data and Theory (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

I. General Introduction.- 0. Food Webs and Community Structure.- II. Empirical Regularities.- 0. Untangling an Entangled Bank.- A. General Regularities.- 1. Ratio of Prey to Predators in Community Food Webs.- 2. Community Food Webs Have Scale-Invariant Structure.- 3. Trophic Links of Community Food Webs.- 4. Food Webs and the Dimensionality of Trophic Niche Space.- B. Differential Regularities.- 5. Environmental Control of Food Web Structure.- 6. Environmental Correlates of Food Chain Length.- III. A Stochastic Theory of Community Food Webs.- 1. Theory: Circles of Complexity, Spherical Horses.- 2. Models and Aggregated Data.- 3. Individual Webs.- 4. Predicted and Observed Lengths of Food Chains.- 5. Theory of Food Chain Lengths in Large Webs.- 6. Intervality and Triangulation in the Trophic Niche Overlap Graph.- IV. Data on 113 Community Food Webs.- References.- Acknowledgements.- Authors Index.