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Written by Dr. George Sugihara, this pioneering work represents a unifying synthesis to tie together four disparate areas of ecology: 1) topological structure of food webs; 2) ecosystem dynamics; 3) ecosystem/food web assembly; and 4) universal patterns of species abundance. Based on the premise that deep general principles are likely to be associated with widely observed empirical regularities, it is organized around uncovering and explaining such patterns for each of the four research areas, and then showing how they interrelate. While this book has historic interest, it is even more relevant today in its findings and overall scope. Front Cover 1 Title Page 2 Copyright 3 Contents 4 Foreward by Lord May 6 Foreward by Jordi Bascompte, Ph.D 8 Abstract 12 Preface 11 Acknowledgments 14 Chapter 1: The Beginning 16 1.1 Introduction 16 1.2 Menu 17 Chapter 2: Characterizing the Niche 22 2.1 A Problem of Incompatible Dimensions 22 2.2 Handling the Dimensionality Problem 23 2.2.1 The Consumer Overlap Graph 24 2.2.2 The Resource Graph: A Tinker Toy Model 27 2.2.3 Species as Convex Polyhedra 29 2.3 Trophic Equivalence 32 Summary 33 Chapter 3: Holes in Niche Space 36 3.1 The Mathematical Struc

Author

George Sugihara

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EN