Food Webs
Integration of Patterns and Dynamics
Published on 1. September 1995
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-0-412-04051-1 (ISBN)
Description
Food-web research has recently experienced a surge of activity fueled by new empirical data and innovative theories. Over the past decade and a half, food web has been equated to a large extent with food-web theory, a body of explanations for regularities observed in the features of simple food webs reported in the literature. In recent years, it has become clear that real food webs are much more complex and dynamic than was portrayed by earlier studies. Current research documents the complexity and variability of food webs, and seeks to explain patterns in the structure and function of food webs. Moreover, the integration of food-web patterns with ecological dynamics has become a major goal that ultimately will link food webs with other levels of the biological hierarchy. Major issues covered by the book include: the role of nutrients, detritus and microbes in food webs; indirect effects in food webs; the interaction of productivity and consumption; linking cause and effect in food webs; temporal and spatial scales of food-web dynamics; applications of food webs to pest management, fisheries, and ecosystem stress.
The book contains numerous tables, figures, and mathematical equations that are reported nowhere else in the literature. The book contains the review and synthesis of developments in the field of food web research. The book is organized into six sections. Each of the five sections of contributed chapters contain a brief introductory chapter that actually is a minireview. The sixth section contains three in-depth synthesis chapters: the role of indirect effects; productivity and consumer regulation;and temporal, spatial, and life history influences on food webs. This book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers in ecology, forestry, natural resources, environmental science, wildlife, fisheries, biology and zoology with an interest in community and ecosystem ecology.
The book contains numerous tables, figures, and mathematical equations that are reported nowhere else in the literature. The book contains the review and synthesis of developments in the field of food web research. The book is organized into six sections. Each of the five sections of contributed chapters contain a brief introductory chapter that actually is a minireview. The sixth section contains three in-depth synthesis chapters: the role of indirect effects; productivity and consumer regulation;and temporal, spatial, and life history influences on food webs. This book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers in ecology, forestry, natural resources, environmental science, wildlife, fisheries, biology and zoology with an interest in community and ecosystem ecology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 176 mm
Weight
1020 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-412-04051-1 (9780412040511)
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Section I: Detritus and nutrients: Introduction - Michael J. Vanni and Peter C. DeRuiter; Food webs and nutrient cycling in soils - Janne Bengtsson, Heikki Setala and D.W. Zheng; Energetics of detritivory and microbivory in soil in theory and practice - David C. Coleman; Integrating the microbial loop and the classical food chain into a realistic planktonic food web - Karen G. Porter; Trophic structure and carbon flow dynamics in the pelagic community of a large lake -- Ursula Gaedke, Dietmar Straile, and Claudia Pahl- Wostl; Biogeochemistry and trophic ecology: a new food-web diagram - Robert W. Sterner, James J. Elser, Thomas H. Chrzanowski, John H. Schampel, and Nicholas B. George; Nutrient transport and recycling by consumers in lake food webs: implications for algal communities - Michael J. Vanni; Food-web structure and littoral zone coupling to pelagic trophic cascades - Daniel E. Schindler, Stephen R. Carpenter, Kathryn L. Cottingham, Xi He, James R. Hodgson, James F. Kitchell, and Patricia A. Soranno; Section II: Interaction of Productivity and Consumption: Introduction - Donald L. DeAngelis, Lennart Persson, and Amy Rosemond; Dynamics and interactions in food webs with adaptive foragers - Peter Abrams; Nonlinear food web models and their responses to increased basal productivity - Roger Arditi and Jurzy Michalski; The relative importance of resource limitation and predator limitation in food chains - Craig W. Osenberg and Gary G. Mittelbach; Indirect effects of herbivores modify predicted effects of resources and consumption on plant biomass-- Amy Rosemond; Food-web dynamics on some small subtropical islands: effects of top and intermediate predators - David A. Spiller and Thomas W. Schoener; Subterranean species, endogenous defenses, plant nutrients, and competition: an example of underappreciated interactions in terrestrial food webs - Donald R. Strong, John L. Maron, and Peter G. Connors; Section III: Causes and Effects: Introduction - Janne Bengtsson, Neo Martinez and Donald Strong; Assessing the relative importance of trophic links in food webs - David G. Raffaelli and Stephen J. Hall; Food webs and perturbation experiments: theory and practice - Peter Yodzis; Energetics and stability in belowground food webs - Peter C. DeRuiter, Anje-Margriet Neutel and John C. Moore; What equilibrium analysis of Lotka-Volterra equations do not tell us about food-web dynamics - Alan Hastings; Effects of food-chain length and omnivory on population dynamics in experimental food webs - Peter J. Morin and Sharon P.