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Meta-analyses of the role of eutrophication in marine pelagic cascades (Micheli, 1999 ) and in experimental systems (Boreret al. ...

that there is a decreasing turnover rate with trophic level. To enable comparison across habitats we suggest that differences in ...

Box 7.3 Trophic pyramids and turnover rate in primary producers A cascade appears to explain the loss of aquatic plants in shall ...

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lasted for more than ten years). It is unclear whether experiments of the type ‘a wolf in the sheep field and the grass grows lo ...

Zealand streams invaded by trout is a consequence of the behaviour of the invertebrate prey, which seek refuge under stones and ...

macrophytes, the plant-dominated state is more structurally complex than the phytoplankton-dominated state and has greater speci ...

but the rate of turnover of primary producer biomass that influences their occurrence. Body size plays various roles which can b ...

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dependence in a predatory insect: large- scale experiments in a stream.Journal of Animal Ecology, 73 , 448–458. Holt, R. D. (200 ...

standing crop: comparisons among biomes, between vascular and nonvascular plants, and among freshwater herbivore taxa. In The St ...

trophic cascade a trophic cascade?Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 15 , 473–475. Power, M. E. (2000). What enables trophic casca ...

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CHAPTER EIGHT Body size and scale invariance: multifractals in invertebrate communities PETER E.SCHMID Queen Mary, University of ...

quantitative features that are intriguingly similar. These properties can be conveniently grouped under the heading of scale inv ...

The fractal dimension calculated from a power-law fit of SAR data and the fractal dimension(s) of species that make up that dist ...

Multifractal distributions are best suited for representing the multiplicative action of the various biotic and physical process ...

often proportional to their body size (Schmid & Schmid-Araya, 1997 , 2002), particles were analyzed within the size range of ...

approximated to3/4 within trophic groups, commonly using ordinary least squares model I regression (OLS). Since body mass scale ...

When changing spatial scales (Fig.8.1), the range ofN-Mslopes obtained was wider over smaller sampling areas (<20 m^2 ) refle ...