Community Ecology Processes, Models, and Applications
5.9 Adding food web interactions into the equation All of the models discussed above consider species interactions only within a ...
since the ecosystems being connected often tran- scend those types to which ecologists typically re- strict themselves. Grasslan ...
dragonflies are voracious predators on a variety of terrestrial insects, including species that are impor- tant pollinators of t ...
CHAPTER 6 Spatio-temporal structure in soil communities and ecosystem processes Matty P. Berg 6.1 Introduction For some time eco ...
tremendous variety of microbes and fauna in soil, with much variation in body size, feeding speciali- zation, life history strat ...
essential for the mineralization of carbon and nu- trients that are bound to dead organic matter and the provision of resources ...
(Berg and Matzner 1997). The net effect is a relative increase in recalcitrant substrates as decomposition proceeds, while the a ...
spatial variability in soil community composition has been simultaneously analysed. The composition of the soil community varies ...
variability are observed to those in litter that de- graded over time. The relatively high short-term variability of soil fauna ...
by a factor of 2, whereas the model predictions for fragmented litter and humus were closer to the actual C mineralization. The ...
high plant diversity and patchy distribution of decaying logs a higher horizontal spatial variability in detritus quality will b ...
see Morin 1999). This aspect of spatial scale has so far been largely ignored in empirical and theoreti- cal food web studies. I ...
1962) and fauna (Dilly and Irmler 1998). As a result, successive organic horizons yield different local connectedness food webs ...
horizons (Pearson correlation coefficient for C,r¼ 0.999; for N,r¼0.996). Moreover, total food web biomass did not explain the o ...
in many community studies and food models, while variability in community composition over time and space is often ignored (Berg ...
Part IV Applications ...
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CHAPTER 7 Applications of community ecology approaches in terrestrial ecosystems: local problems, remote causes Wim H. van der P ...
My message for end-users or stakeholders is that your current problem of interest may very well originate from historical events ...
conclude with some suggestions for users, stake- holders and scientists. 7.2 Community interactions across system boundaries 7.2 ...
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