Food Webs: From Connectivity to EnergeticsElsevier, 16 mei 2005 - 208 pagina's The most recent volume of this series, Advances in Ecological Research, demonstrates a captivating knowledge of recent advances in the analysis of food webs. A food web describes the network of predator-prey interactions within a community. The simplest description of a food web specifies only who eats whom (a connectance web), with no indication of how much or how often. Chapters in this book begin with a discussion of the most detailed connectance webs ever compiled, and advance to incorporate information on the body size and numerical abundance of the species. The results yield new ways of describing food webs and powerful new models for estimating patterns of energy flow in ecosystems. - Provides fresh ways of describing food webs and applies previous observations in a new context - Ranked as the #1 publication in the Institute for Scientific Information in the Ecology section of 2000 - Powerful new theory AND application to some of the best food web data in the world - Many mathematical models for food web structure and function - Integrates previously unconnected perspectives on the description of ecological communities |
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abundance-body average basal resources benthic biomass abundance body mass kg body size distribution boltonii Broadstone Stream Carpenter cascade model chironomids Cohen connectance webs consumer species correlated decrease detritivores distribution of body dynamics Ecol ecology ecosystem epilimnion epilimnion where species feeding links fish flux flux models food chain food web guts increasing ingestion interaction strength intermediate species invertebrate kg/m³ larger log body mass log numerical abundance log-log log-normal log-normal distribution log(M Lorenz curve Martinez meat benefit ratio meiofauna number of individuals number of links number of species oligochaetes p-value P/B ratios patterns pelagic permanent meiofauna phytoplankton plankton plots population consumption predator predator and prey predator species predicted prey biomass prey species quantified regression resource species sampling effort Schmid-Araya slope species eat species in Tuesday Table taxa trophic cascade trophic height trophic levels trophic links trophic species Tuesday Lake unlumped versus Woodward and Hildrew zooplankton