Dynamic food webs : multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change /

List of Contributors p. xi
Section 1 Introduction
1.0 Tribute Kevin McCann and Mariano Koen-Alonso and Alan Hastings and John C. Moore p. 1
1.1 Dynamic Food Webs Peter C. de Ruiter and Volkmar Wolters and John C. Moore p. 3
1.2 Food Web Science: Moving on the Path from Abstraction to Prediction Kirk O. Winemiller and Craig A. Layman p. 10
Section 2 Dynamic Food Web Structures
2.0 Introduction to Section 2: Dynamic Food Web Structures: Variations in Community Architecture as Stabilizing Mechanisms of Food Webs John C. Moore p. 24
2.1 From Food Webs to Ecological Networks: Linking Non-Linear Trophic Interactions with Nutrient Competition Ulrich Brose and Eric L. Berlow and Neo D. Martinez p. 27
2.2 Food Web Architecture and Its Effects on Consumer Resource Oscillations in Experimental Pond Ecosystems Mathew A. Leibold and Spencer R. Hall and Ottar Bjornstad p. 37
2.3 Food Web Structure: From Scale Invariance to Scale Dependence, and Back Again? Carolin Banasek-Richter and Marie-France Cattin and Louis-Felix Bersier p. 48
2.4 The Role of Space, Time, and Variability in Food Web Dynamics Kevin McCann and Joe Rasmussen and James Umbanhowar and Murray Humphries p. 56
Section 3 Population Dynamics and Food Webs
3.0 Introduction to Section 3: Population Dynamics and Food Webs: Population Dynamics and Food Webs: Drifting Away from the Lotka-Volterra Paradigm Giorgos D. Kokkoris p. 71
3.1 Modelling Evolving Food Webs Alan J. McKane and Barbara Drossel p. 74
3.2 The Influence of Individual Growth and Development on the Structure of Ecological Communities Andre M. de Roos and Lennart Persson p. 89
3.3 Linking Flexible Food Web Structure to Population Stability: A Theoretical Consideration on Adaptive Food Webs Michio Kondoh p. 101
3.4 Inducible Defenses in Food Webs Matthijs Vos and Bob W. Kooi and Don L. DeAngelis and Wolf M. Mooij p. 114
Section 4 Body Size and Food Webs
4.0 Introduction to Section 4: Body Size and Food Webs: Wearing Elton's Wellingtons: Why Body Size Still Matters in Food Webs Philip H. Warren p. 128
4.1 Species' Average Body Mass and Numerical Abundance in a Community Food Web: Statistical Questions in Estimating the Relationship Joel E. Cohen and Stephen R. Carpenter p. 137
4.2 Body Size Scalings and the Dynamics of Ecological Systems Lennart Persson and Andre M. de Roos p. 157
4.3 Body Size, Interaction Strength, and Food Web Dynamics Mark C. Emmerson and Jose M. Montoya and Guy Woodward p. 167
4.4 Body Size Determinants of the Structure and Dynamics of Ecological Networks: Scaling from the Individual to the Ecosystem Guy Woodward and Bo Ebenman and Mark C. Emmerson and Jose M. Montoya and J.M. Olesen and A. Valido and Philip H. Warren p. 179
Section 5 Nutrient and Resource Dynamics and Food Webs
5.0 Introduction to Section 5: Nutrient and Resource Dynamics and Food Webs: Understanding the Mutual Relationships Between the Dynamics of Food Webs, Resources, and Nutrients Tobias Purtauf and Stefan Scheu p. 198
5.1 Variability in Soil Food Web Structure Across Time and Space Janne Bengtsson and Matty P. Berg p. 201
5.2 Functional Roles of Leaf Litter Detritus in Terrestrial Food Webs John L. Sabo and Candan U. Soykan and Andrew Keller p. 211
5.3 Stability and Interaction Strength Within Soil Food Webs of a European Forest Transect: The Impact of N Deposition Dagmar Schroter and Stefan C. Dekker p. 223
5.4 Differential Effects of Consumers on C, N, and P Dynamics: Insights from Long-Term Research Wyatt F. Cross and Amy D. Rosemond and Jonathan P. Benstead and Sue L. Eggert and J. Bruce Wallace p. 235
5.5 Measuring the Ability of Food to Fuel Work on Ecosystems Steven H. Cousins and Kathryn V. Bracewell and Kevin Attree p. 248
5.6 Towards a New Generation of Dynamical Soil Decomposer Food Web Models Stefan C. Dekker and Stefan Scheu and Dagmar Schroter and Heikki Setala and Maciej Szanser and Theo P. Traas p. 258
Section 6 Biodiversity and Food Web Structure and Function
6.0 Introduction to Section 6: Biodiversity and Food Web Structure and Function: Food Webs, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Functioning Peter J. Morin p. 267
6.1 Food Webs and the Relationship Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Michel Loreau and Elisa Thebault p. 270
6.2 Biodiversity, Food Web Structure, and the Partitioning of Biomass Within and Among Trophic Levels Jeremy W. Fox p. 283
6.3 Trophic Position, Biotic Context, and Abiotic Factors Determine Species Contributions to Ecosystem Functioning Amy Downing and J. Timothy Wootton p. 295
6.4 Does Biological Complexity Relate to Functional Attributes of Soil Food Webs? Heikki Setala p. 308
6.5 Diversity, Productivity, and Invasibility Relationships in Rock Pool Food Webs Beatrix E. Beisner and Tamara N. Romanuk p. 321
6.6 Measuring the Functional Diversity of Food Webs Owen L. Petchey and Jill McGrady-Steed and Peter J. Morin p. 334
Section 7 Environmental Change, Perturbations, and Food Webs
7.0 Introduction to Section 7: Environmental Change, Perturbations, and Food Webs: Tracing Perturbation Effects in Food Webs: The Potential and Limitation of Experimental Approaches Dave Raffaelli p. 348
7.1 Insight into Pollution Effects in Complex Riverine Habitats: A Role for Food Web Experiments Joseph M. Culp and Nancy E. Glozier and Kevin J. Cash and Donald J. Baird p. 354
7.2 Perturbations and Indirect Effects in Complex Food Webs Jose M. Montoya and Mark C. Emmerson and Ricard V. Sole and Guy Woodward p. 369
7.3 Dealing with Model Uncertainty in Trophodynamic Models: A Patagonian Example Mariano Koen-Alonso and Peter Yodzis p. 381
7.4 Describing a Species-Rich River Food Web Using Stable Isotopes, Stomach Contents, and Functional Experiments Craig A. Layman and Kirk O. Winemiller and D. Albrey Arrington p. 395
7.5 Communicating Ecology Through Food Webs: Visualizing and Quantifying the Effects of Stocking Alpine Lakes with Trout Sarah Harper-Smith and Eric L. Berlow and Roland A. Knapp and Richard J. Williams and Neo D. Martinez p. 407
Section 8 Thematic Reviews
8.0 Preface: Thematic Reviews Peter C. de Ruiter and John C. Moore and Volkmar Wolters p. 424
8.1 How Do Complex Food Webs Persist in Nature? Anthony I. Dell and Giorgos D. Kokkoris and Carolin Banasek-Richter and Louis-Felix Bersier and Jennifer A. Dunne and Michio Kondoh and Tamara N. Romanuk and Neo D. Martinez p. 425
8.2 Population Dynamics and Food Web Structure-Predicting Measurable Food Web Properties with Minimal Detail and Resolution John L. Sabo and Beatrix E. Beisner and Eric L. Berlow and Kim Cuddington and Alan Hastings and Mariano Koen-Alonso and Giorgos D. Kokkoris and Kevin McCann and Carlos Melian and John C. Moore p. 437
8.3 Central Issues for Aquatic Food Webs: From Chemical Cues to Whole System Responses Ursula M. Scharler and Florence D. Hulot and Donald J. Baird and Wyatt F. Cross and Joseph M. Culp and Craig A. Layman and Dave Raffaelli and Matthijs Vos and Kirk O. Winemiller p. 451
8.4 Spatial Aspects of Food Webs Ulrich Brose and Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman and Anna Eklof and Janne Bengtsson and Matty P. Berg and Steven H. Cousins and Christian Mulder and Herman A. Verhoef and Volkmar Wolters p. 463
References p. 471
Key Words p. 541
Index p. 553