Although it was first published twenty years ago, Stuart Pimm's Food Webs remains the clearest introduction yet to the study of food webs, diagrams depicting which species interact - in other words, who eats whom. Reviewing various hypotheses in light of theoretical and empirical evidence, Pimm shows that even the most complex food webs follow certain patterns, and that those patterns are shaped by a limited number of biological processes - processes he provides mathematical tools for unraveling (and concrete examples of those tools' application). This edition adds a new foreword covering recent developments in the study of food webs and demonstrating their continuing importance to conservation biology, particularly attempts to predict which communities are most vulnerable to disturbance.

About the Author
Stuart L. Pimm is professor of ecology in the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University. He is the author of The World According to Pimm; A Scientist Audits the Earth and The Balance of Nature? Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews
"[An] important and long-needed book....[It] should attract a wide audience and should serve, for years to come, as the basis for new investigations, both theoretical and empirical." - Michael Gllpin, Nature



Book Information
ISBN 9780226668321
Author Stuart L. Pimm
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Weight(grams) 397g
Dimensions(mm) 23mm * 17mm * 2mm