Community Ecology Processes, Models, and Applications
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CHAPTER 1 The topology of ecological interaction networks: the state of the art Owen L. Petchey, Peter J. Morin and Han Olff 1.1 ...
(a) Small starfish (Leptasterias) Snails (Nucella) Birds (Larus, Haematopus, Corvus) Goose barnacles (Pollicipes) Acorn 0 barnac ...
through behavioural interference and positive inter- actions including mutualisms and commensalisms. In practice, few representa ...
Lindeman (1942). Fig. 1.1c shows the quantification of the patterns of energy flow in a salt marsh in North America among the ma ...
web comes from Wootton’s (1994) work on inter- actions among some of the species living in the rocky intertidal zone of Washingt ...
ability to compete well for nutrients has been sug- gested to happen at the expense of the ability to compete for light (Tilman ...
Intransitive networks involving multiple toxins and multiple resistance factors to those toxins, along with trade-offs between t ...
of chaotic dynamics in a food web. Whether such chaotic dynamics also frequently occur in natural plankton communities still nee ...
1.2.3 Unresolved issues Except for a very few well-studied and relatively simple examples, we know little about the structure of ...
in an autocatalytic loop, in which species A pro- motes B, B promotes C, and C promotes A, result- ing in indirect mutualism (A ...
ask to what extent the nestedness in mutualism networks is a consequence of the structure of phy- logenies, or of more ecologica ...
Among the 15 food webs analysed, however, only four are from terrestrial ecosystems (Broom, Coa- chella, EcoWEB60 and Grasslands ...
parasitoid and host would lead to specialization. Whereas parasitoids can often suspend their devel- opment in the absence of ap ...
problem was that the inefficiency of energy transfer should predict that longer food chains should occur in more productive envi ...
Kaunzinger and Morin (1998) may be a feature of relatively unproductive systems. The other approach used to evaluate links be- t ...
other structural features of food webs, this should be a priority research question about community topology. It would be fascin ...
Part II Dynamics ...
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CHAPTER 2 Trophic dynamics of communities Herman A. Verhoef and Han Olff 2.1 What types of dynamics can be distinguished? Having ...
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