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vast majority of variation (r^2 ¼0.98). The enormous variation in body size across these organisms masks considerable unexplaine ...

other extrinsic factors, but birth and death rates must match, and the rate of production must offset the rate of mortality for ...

scaling asM3/4 and whole-organism field metabolic rate or energy use per individual,P,scalingasM3/4, is that the rate of commun ...

whereXis the whole-body concentration of substanceX, and the subscripti denotes a species, developmental stage or body-size clas ...

Allenet al.(2005) further show how this framework can be extended to understand the roles of different sizes and temperatures of ...

and abundance, other factors contributing toaare: (i) the fraction of the metabolism at level 0 that is allocated to biomass pro ...

predictions about the effects of energy and materials on the ecology of organ- isms and the roles of organisms on the fluxes and ...

Carpenter, S. R. & Kitchell, J. F. (1988). Consumer control of lake productivity.Bioscience, 38 , 764–769. Cohen, J. E., Jon ...

dynamics in experimental pond communities.Ecology, 76 , 133–149. Morin, P.J. (1999). Productivity, intraguild predation, and pop ...

CHAPTER TWO Body size and suspension feeding STUART HUMPHRIES Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield I ...

deposit-feeding (picking particles from the substratum) at low velocities, and suspension-feeding when deposited particles are r ...

fundamentally determine the food-capture rate of suspension feeding animals. In this context body size can be seen as synonymous ...

Body size changes during ontogeny and evolution The flow regime that an organism experiences is critical to a number of physio- ...

Table 2.1Partial list of suspension feeders likely to feed at intermediate-Re,based on estimates of flow local to feeding struct ...

(b) 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 0.00001 0.0001 0.001 Reynolds number 0.01 0.1 1 Leakiness (a) Particle encounter rate Re = 1 Log velocit ...

physical support than in terrestrial organisms. However, physical restrictions on the size of feeding structures will start to a ...

rather than a general increase in the size of existing polyps. This method has its limitations, however, because while it enable ...

dual-function organs, these animals might profit by increasing the size of their feeding apparatus for a given body size. Howeve ...

feeders. Evidence from vertebrates eating ‘small-prey’ (Peters, 1983 ) suggests a relationship of the formWprey¼0.0018Wpred1.18, ...

Minimum prey size, however, will be limited by hydrodynamic considerations (encounter rate has a minimum against particle size a ...