Aquatic Food Webs

Andrea Belgrano is a Researcher at the National Center for Genome Resources, University of New Mexico.Ursula Scharler is a Fellow of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center at the University of Maryland.Jennifer Dunne is an ecologist with interests in computational ecology and ecoinformatics. She is a co-founder and the assistant director of the Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, a visiting researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, and a principal investigator at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.Robert E. Ulanowicz is Professor of Theoretical Ecology with the University of Maryland's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. His current interests include network analysis of trophic exchanges in ecosystems, information theory as applied to ecological systems, the thermodynamics of living systems, causality in living systems, and modelling subtropical wetland ecosystems in Florida and Belize .

This book gives a good background for all those interested in the theory and modelling aspects of aquatic food webs. There are certainly lessons to be learnt here for many. Journal of Plankton Research, Volume 28, Number 10

• 1. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION; 2. EXAMINING FOOD WEB THEORIES; 3. STABILITY AND DIVERSITY IN FOOD WEBS; 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS