Trophic Ecology (eBook, ePUB)

Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interactions across Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems
Redaktion: Hanley, Torrance C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As researchers try to predict the effects of human modification at all trophic levels and mediate the impact of rapid environmental change, it has become clear it is no longer a matter of agreeing that both bottom-up and top-down forces play important roles in diverse ecosystems. Rather, the question is: how do these forces interact across aquatic and terrestrial systems? Written by leading experts in the field, this book presents a unique synthesis of trophic relationships within and across ecosystems that is a valuable foundation for the development of cross-system, multidisciplinary research. It also provides new insights into population biology and community ecology and examines the interactive effects of bottom-up and top-down forces on biodiversity at each trophic level. A one-stop resource for learning about bottom-up and top-down interactions, this book encourages discussion and collaboration among researchers to identify similarities and differences in trophic interactions across aquatic and terrestrial systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316289068
• Artikelnr.: 52847931

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Theory: 1. Theoretical perspectives
on bottom-up and top-down interactions across ecosystems Shawn J. Leroux
and Michel Loreau; Part II. Ecosystems: 2. The spatio-temporal dynamics of
trophic control in large marine ecosystems Kenneth T. Frank, Jonathan A. D.
Fisher and William C. Leggett; 3. Top-down and bottom-up interactions in
freshwater ecosystems: emerging complexities Jason M. Taylor, Michael J.
Vanni and Alexander S. Flecker; 4. Top-down and bottom-up interactions
determine tree and herbaceous layer dynamics in savannah grasslands A.
Carla Staver and Sally Koerner; 5. Bottom-up and top-down forces shaping
wooded ecosystems: lessons from a cross-biome comparison Dries P. J.
Kuijper, Mariska te Beest, Marcin Churski and Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt; 6.
Dynamic systems of exchange link trophic dynamics in freshwater and
terrestrial food webs John L. Sabo and David Hoekman; 7. Bottom-up and
top-down interactions in coastal interface systems Jan P. Bakker, Karina J.
Nielsen, Juan Alberti, Francis Chan, Sally D. Hacker, Oscar O. Iribarne,
Dries P. J. Kuijper, Bruce A. Menge, Maarten Schrama and Brian R. Silliman;
Part III. Patterns and Processes: 8. Influence of plant defences and
nutrients on trophic control of ecosystems Karin T. Burghardt and Oswald J.
Schmitz; 9. Interactive effects of plants, decomposers, herbivores, and
predators on nutrient cycling Sarah E. Hobbie and Sébastien Villéger; 10.
The role of bottom-up and top-down interactions in determining microbial
and fungal diversity and function Thomas W. Crowther and Hans-Peter
Grossart; 11. The question of scale in trophic ecology Lee A. Dyer, Tara J.
Massad and Matthew L. Forister; 12. The role of species diversity in
bottom-up and top-down interactions Jerome J. Weis; 13. Plant and herbivore
evolution within the trophic sandwich Luis Abdala-Roberts and Kailen A.
Mooney; 14. Bottom-up and top-down interactions across ecosystems in an era
of global change Kimberly J. La Pierre and Torrance C. Hanley; Index.