Sökning: "Cascading extinctions"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Cascading extinctions.
1. Cascading extinctions in food webs : local and regional processes
Sammanfattning : Ecological communities all over the world are loosing biodiversity due to different kinds of human activities and there is an urgent need of understanding how those losses affect the function of the ecosystems on which we all depend. The community's response to species losses is likely to depend on both the structure of the local community as well as its interactions with surrounding communities. LÄS MER
2. Species extinctions in food webs : local and regional processes
Sammanfattning : Loss of biodiversity is one of the most severe threats to the ecosystems of the world. The major causes behind the high population and species extinction rates are anthropogenic activities such as overharvesting of natural populations, pollution, climate change and destruction and fragmentation of natural habitats. LÄS MER
3. Community Robustness Analysis : Theoretical Approaches to Identifying Keystone Structures in Ecological Communities
Sammanfattning : Most of the world’s ecosystems suffer from stress caused by human activities such as habitat destruction, fragmentation, overexploitation of species and climate change. These factors affect the reproduction and/or survival of individual species as well as interactions between species in ecological communities. LÄS MER
4. Structure and Stability of Ecological Networks : The role of dynamic dimensionality and species variability in resource use
Sammanfattning : The main focus of this thesis is on the response of ecological communities to environmental variability and species loss. My approach is theoretical; I use mathematical models of networks where species population dynamics are described by ordinary differential equations. LÄS MER
