pt. 1. The problem and the approach. The balance of nature: what is it and why care?
A primer for dynamical systems
Of modules, motifs, and whole webs
pt. 2. Food web modules: from populations to small food webs. Excitable and nonexcitable population dynamics
Consumer-resource dynamics: building consumptive food webs
Lagged consumer-resource dynamics
pt. 3. Toward whole systems. Coupling modules in space: a landscape theory
Food webs as complex adaptive systems.
