Food Webs: Integration of Patterns & Dynamics

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Food Webs: What Can They Tell Us About the World?....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Detritus and Nutrients in Food Webs....Pages 25-29
Food Webs and Nutrient Cycling in Soils: Interactions and Positive Feedbacks....Pages 30-38
Energetics of Detritivory and Microbivory in Soil in Theory and Practice....Pages 39-50
Integrating the Microbial Loop and the Classic Food Chain Into a Realistic Planktonic Food Web....Pages 51-59
Trophic Structure and Carbon Flow Dynamics in the Pelagic Community of a Large Lake....Pages 60-71
Biogeochemistry and Trophic Ecology: A New Food Web Diagram....Pages 72-80
Nutrient Transport and Recycling by Consumers in Lake Food Webs: Implications for Algal Communities....Pages 81-95
Food Web Structure and Littoral Zone Coupling to Pelagic Trophic Cascades....Pages 96-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Interaction of Productivity and Consumption....Pages 109-112
Dynamics and Interactions in Food Webs with Adaptive Foragers....Pages 113-121
Nonlinear Food Web Models and Their Responses to Increased Basal Productivity....Pages 122-133
The Relative Importance of Resource Limitation and Predator Limitation in Food Chains....Pages 134-148
Indirect Effects of Herbivores Modify Predicted Effects of Resources and Consumption on Plant Biomass....Pages 149-159
Food-Web Dynamics on Some Small Subtropical Islands: Effects of Top and Intermediate Predators....Pages 160-169
Top Down From Underground? The Underappreciated Influence of Subterranean Food Webs on Above-Ground Ecology....Pages 170-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Causes and Effects in Food Webs: Do Generalities Exist?....Pages 179-184
Assessing the Relative Importance of Trophic Links in Food Webs....Pages 185-191
Food Webs and Perturbation Experiments: Theory and Practice....Pages 192-200
Energetics and Stability in Belowground Food Webs....Pages 201-210
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
What Equilibrium Behavior of Lotka-Volterra Models Does Not Tell Us About Food Webs....Pages 211-217
Effects of Food Chain Length and Omnivory on Population Dynamics in Experimental Food Webs....Pages 218-230
Structure and Dynamics of Arctic-Subarctic Grazing Webs in Relation to Primary Productivity....Pages 231-242
Food Webs: From the Lindeman Paradigm to a Taxonomic General Theory of Ecology....Pages 243-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Food Web Structure and Dynamics....Pages 255-257
Control of Interaction Strength in Marine Benthic Communities....Pages 258-274
Allochthonous Input Across Habitats, Subsidized Consumers, and Apparent Trophic Cascades: Examples from the Ocean-Land Interface....Pages 275-285
Disturbance and Food Chain Length in Rivers....Pages 286-297
Factors Driving Temporal and Spatial Variation in Aquatic Floodplain Food Webs....Pages 298-312
Food Webs in Space: An Island Biogeographic Perspective....Pages 313-323
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Food Web Dynamics and Applied Problems....Pages 327-336
Structure and Impact of Natural Enemy Guilds in Biological Control of Insect Pests....Pages 337-342
Quantifying the Impact of Insecticides on Food Web Structure of Rice-Arthropod Populations in a Philippine Farmer’s Irrigated Field: A Case Study....Pages 343-351
The Impact of Industrial Fisheries on the Trophic Structure of Marine Ecosystems....Pages 352-357
Trophic Flow Networks as Indicators of Ecosystem Stress....Pages 358-368
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
The Role of Indirect Effects in Food Webs....Pages 371-395
Productivity and Consumer Regulation—Concepts, Patterns, and Mechanisms....Pages 396-434
Time, Space, and Life History: Influences on Food Webs....Pages 435-460
Back Matter....Pages 461-472