Body Size: The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hildrew, Alan G.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ecologists have long struggled to predict features of ecological systems, such as the numbers and diversity of organisms. The wide range of body sizes in ecological communities, from tiny microbes to large animals and plants, is emerging as the key to prediction. Based on the relationship between body size and features such as biological rates, the physics of water and the amount of habitat available, we may be able to understand patterns of abundance and diversity, biogeography, interactions in food webs and the impact of fishing, adding up to a potential 'periodic table' for ecology. Remarkable progress on the unravelling, describing and modelling of aquatic food webs, revealing the fundamental role of body size, makes a book emphasising marine and freshwater ecosystems particularly apt. In this 2007 book, the importance of body size is examined at a range of scales that will be of interest to professional ecologists, from students to senior researchers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511292682
• Artikelnr.: 38195510

Autorenporträt

Alan Hildrew is Professor in the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London.
Dave Raffaelli is Professor at the University of York.
Ronni Edmonds-Brown is a senior lecturer in Environmental Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The metabolic theory of ecology and the role of body size in marine and
freshwater ecosystems James H. Brown, Andrew P. Allen and James F.
Gillooly; 2. Body size and suspension feeding Stuart Humphries; 3. Life
histories and body size David Atkinson and Andrew G. Hirst; 4. Relationship
between biomass turnover and body size for stream communities Alexander D.
Huryn and Arthur C. Benke; 5. Body size in streams: macroinvertebrate
community size composition along natural and human-induced environmental
gradients Colin R. Townsend and Ross M. Thompson; 6. Body size and
predatory interactions in fresh waters: scaling from individuals to
communities Guy Woodward and Philip Warren; 7. Body size and trophic
cascades in lakes J. Iwan Jones and Erik Jeppesen; 8. Body-size and
scale-invariance: multifractals in invertebrate communities Peter E. Schmid
and Jenny M. Schmid-Araya; 9. Body size and biogeography B. J. Finlay and
G. F. Esteban; 10. By wind, wings or water: body size, dispersal and range
size in aquatic invertebrates Simon D. Rundle, David T. Bilton and Andrew
Foggo; 11. Body size and diversity in marine systems Richard M. Warwick;
12. Interplay between individual growth and population feed backs shapes
body size distributions Lennart Persson and André M. De Roos; 13. The
consequences of body-size in model microbial ecosystems Owen L. Petchey,
Zachary T. Long and Peter J. Morin; 14. Body size, exploitation and
conservation of marine organisms Simon Jennings and John D. Reynolds; 15.
How body size mediates the role of animals in nutrient cycling in aquatic
ecosystems Robert O. Hall, Jr., Benjamin J. Koch, Michael C. Marshall, Brad
W. Taylor and Lusha M. Tronstad; 16. Body sizes in food chains of animal
predators and parasites Joel E. Cohen; 17. Body size in aquatic ecology:
important, but not the whole story Alan G. Hildrew, David G. Raffaelli and
Ronni Edmonds-Brown.