Inside this Book Back of Book Info Table of Contents Series SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Pub. Date December 2005 Publisher Oxford University Press Order Info 0-195-18816-0 $64.50 (cloth);

Table of Contents

Preface
M. Pascual and J. A. Dunne

1. INTRODUCTION

1. From Small to Large Ecological Networks in a Dynamic World
   M. Pascual and J. A. Dunne

2. STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS

2. The Network Structure of Food Webs
   J. A. Dunne

3. Graph Theory and Food Webs
   C. C. Cartozo, G. Garlaschelli, and G. Caldarelli

4. Parasites and Food Webs
   A. Dobson, K. Lafferty, and A. Kuris

5. The Structure of Plant-Animal Mutualistic Networks
   J. Bascompte and P. Jordano

3. INTEGRATING ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

6. Diversity, Complexity, and Persistance in Large Model Ecosystems
   N. D. Martinez, R. J. Williams, and J. A. Dunne

7. Exploring Network Space with Genetic Algorithms Modularity
   Resilience, and Reactivity

8. Food-Web Structure and Dynamics: Reconciling Alternative Ecological Currencies
   J. F. Gillooly, A. P. Allen, and J. H. Brown

4. ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS AS EVOLVING, ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

9. Models of Food-Web Evolution
   A. J. McKane and B. Drossel

10. Phenotypic Plasticity and Species Coexistence: Modeling Food Webs as Complex Adaptive Systems
    S. D. Peacor, R. L. Riolo, and M. Pascual

11. Exploring the Evolution of Ecosystems with Digital Organisms
    C. O. Wilke and S. S. Chow

12. Network Evolution: Exploring the Change and Adaptation of Complex Ecological Systems over Deep Time
    N. D. Martinez

5. STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS

13. Ecological Network Meltdown from Habitat Loss and Fragmentatino
    R. V. Solé and J. M. Montoya

14. Biodiversity Loss and Ecological Network Structure
    J. Memmott, David Alonso, E. L. Berlow, A. Dobson, J. A. Dunne, R. V. Solé, and J. Weitz

15. Challenges for the Future: Integrating Ecological Structure and Dynamics
    M. Pascual, J. A. Dunne, and S. A. Levin

Index