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ecologists often present their data as a continuous size spectrum of individuals, irrespective of taxonomic affinities, whereas ...

(organisms sedentary on woody debris in the channel) of the warm water Ogeechee River (Georgia, USA) was inconsistent with the t ...

2005 ), and these authors also provide a good discussion of the difference between a failure to reject a null hypothesis and ver ...

clear patterns of macroinvertebrate body size are ‘sometimes apparent but rarely account for a large proportion of variation alo ...

sense that trophic cascades are characterized by clear trophic levels, there seems a disparity between the view that cascades ar ...

meiofaunal species would predate on or compete with them (many meiofaunal predators take relatively large prey, often larger tha ...

zebra mussel (Dreissena), and why does excretion of N and P inDreissenascale so disproportionately with body size (b¼1.38)? Ther ...

but that heterogeneity, fluctuations and non-equilibrial processes mean that systems obey such rules only in an approximate way. ...

Index absolute abundance, microbial species169–171 abundance and metabolic rate8–9 consumer:producer ratios11–12 distribution ac ...

body size (cont.) relationship with temperature 42 variation within species 226 body-size distribution (BSD) in communities 140 ...

role of metabolism in trophic relationships11–12 scale-invariance and fractal properties of SADs 141–142 scale-invariance and fr ...

food webs (cont.) ‘life history’ omnivory 110 masking of size-related effects107, 108, 109–110 rates of energy and material flow ...

methodological issues36–39 optimality (optimization) model34–35, 36–37 phenotypic plasticity37–39 prediction of life history pla ...

microbial systems (experimental) (cont.) population consequences of body size249, 251–252, 253, 254, 255, 259–261 results251–259 ...

and species interactions 2 intrinsic rate of increase (rmax) 270–271 responses to additional mortality270–273 strength of compen ...

Simulium(blackfly) larvae, feeding strategy 28 size-spectrum changes in stressed ecosystems 112–113 size-structured consumer-res ...

trophic cascades alternative equilibria132–133 and biomass distribution 122 and habitat complexity129–132 and predator–prey inte ...