Food Webs

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Food Webs: What Can They Tell Us About the World?

   1. Food Webs: What Can They Tell Us About the World?

      • Kirk O. Winemiller, Gary A. Polis

      Pages 1-22

3. Detritus and Nutrients

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Detritus and Nutrients in Food Webs

      • Michael J. Vanni, Peter C. de Ruiter

      Pages 25-29

   3. Food Webs and Nutrient Cycling in Soils: Interactions and Positive Feedbacks

      • Janne Bengtsson, Heikki Setälä, David W. Zheng

      Pages 30-38

   4. Energetics of Detritivory and Microbivory in Soil in Theory and Practice

      • David C. Coleman

      Pages 39-50

   5. Integrating the Microbial Loop and the Classic Food Chain Into a Realistic Planktonic Food Web

      • Karen G. Porter

      Pages 51-59

   6. Trophic Structure and Carbon Flow Dynamics in the Pelagic Community of a Large Lake

      • Ursula Gaedke, Dietmar Straile, Claudia Pahl-Wostl

      Pages 60-71

   7. Biogeochemistry and Trophic Ecology: A New Food Web Diagram

      • Robert W. Sterner, James J. Elser, Thomas H. Chrzanowski, John H. Schampel, Nicolas B. George

      Pages 72-80

   8. Nutrient Transport and Recycling by Consumers in Lake Food Webs: Implications for Algal Communities

      • Michael J. Vanni

      Pages 81-95

   9. 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 et al.

      Pages 96-105

4. Interaction of Productivity and Consumption

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Interaction of Productivity and Consumption

      • Donald L. DeAngelis, Lennart Persson, Amy D. Rosemond

      Pages 109-112

   3. Dynamics and Interactions in Food Webs with Adaptive Foragers

      • Peter A. Abrams

      Pages 113-121

   4. Nonlinear Food Web Models and Their Responses to Increased Basal Productivity

      • Roger Arditi, Jerzy Michalski

      Pages 122-133

   5. The Relative Importance of Resource Limitation and Predator Limitation in Food Chains

      • Craig W. Osenberg, Gary G. Mittelbach

      Pages 134-148

   6. Indirect Effects of Herbivores Modify Predicted Effects of Resources and Consumption on Plant Biomass

      • Amy D. Rosemond

      Pages 149-159

   7. Food-Web Dynamics on Some Small Subtropical Islands: Effects of Top and Intermediate Predators

      • David A. Spiller, Thomas W. Schoener

      Pages 160-169

   8. Top Down From Underground? The Underappreciated Influence of Subterranean Food Webs on Above-Ground Ecology

      • Donald R. Strong, John L. Maron, Peter G. Connors

      Pages 170-175

5. Causes and Effects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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Reflecting the recent surge of activity in food web research fueled by new empirical data, this authoritative volume successfully spans and integrates the areas of theory, basic empirical research, applications, and resource problems. Written by recognized leaders from various branches of ecological research, this work provides an in-depth treatment of the most recent advances in the field and examines the complexity and variability of food webs through reviews, new research, and syntheses of the major issues in food web research. Food Webs features material on 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. Three comprehensive chapters synthesize important information on the role of indirect effects, productivity and consumer regulation, and temporal, spatial and life history influences on food webs. In addition, numerous tables, figures, and mathematical equations found nowhere else in related literature are presented in this outstanding work. Food Webs offers researchers and graduate students in various branches of ecology an extensive examination of the subject. Ecologists interested in food webs or community ecology will also find this book an invaluable tool for understanding the current state of knowledge of food web research.

• biomass
• chemistry
• complexity
• ecology
• ecosystem
• lake
• microbes
• nutrient cycling
• plankton
• population dynamics
• soil
• stability

...this important book..is not a ramshackle compilation of idiosyncratic articles, incomprehensible to those outside the field. - Trends in Ecology and Evolution; ...well written and edited volume is substantial and stimulating. I believe it will be an important reference point in the field and I would strongly recommend it to anyone working in community ecology. - Endeavour; The study of these food web proceses is one of the most fundamental concerns of ecology, and this book represents a fascinating summary of current food web research that should interest a wide range of ecologists. - Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 7/97; Just a few of the book's many interesting points could whet the appetite of a student of ecology. - Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 7/97

• Department of Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

  Gary A. Polis

• Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A & M University, College Texas, College Station, USA

  Kirk O. Winemiller

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