Food Webs

...this important book..is not a ramshackle compilation of idiosyncratic articles, incomprehensible to those outside the field. - Trends in Ecology and Evolution; ...well written and edited volume is substantial and stimulating. I believe it will be an important reference point in the field and I would strongly recommend it to anyone working in community ecology. - Endeavour; The study of these food web proceses is one of the most fundamental concerns of ecology, and this book represents a fascinating summary of current food web research that should interest a wide range of ecologists. - Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 7/97; Just a few of the book's many interesting points could whet the appetite of a student of ecology. - Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 7/97

• Food Webs: What Do They Tell Us About the World?.- 1. Detritus and Nutrients in Food Webs.- 2. Food Webs and Nutrient Cycling in Soils: Interactions and Positive Feedbacks.- 3. Energetics of Detritivory and Microbivory in Soil in Theory and Practice.- 4. Integrating the Microbial Loop and the Classic Food Chain into a Realistic Planktonic Food Web.- 5. Trophic Structure and Carbon Flow Dynamics in the Pelagic Community of a Large Lake.- 6. Biogeochemistry and Trophic Ecology: A New Food Web Diagram.- 7. Nutrient Transport and Recycling by Consumers in Lake Food Webs: Implications for Algal Communities.- 8. Food Web Structure and Littoral Zone Coupling to Pelagic Trophic Cascades.- 9. Interaction of Productivity and Consumption.- 10. Dynamics and Interactions in Food Webs with Adaptive Foragers.- 11. Nonlinear Food Web Models and Their Responses to Increased Basal Productivity.- 12. The Relative Importance of Resource Limitation and Predator Limitation in Food Chains.- 13. Indirect Effects of Herbivores Modify Predicted Effects of Resources and Consumption on Plant Biomass.- 14. Food Web Dynamics on Some Small Subtropical Islands: Effects of Top and Intermediate Predators.- 15. Top Down from Underground? The Underappreciated Influence of Subterranean Food Webs on Aboveground Ecology.- 16. Causes and Effects in Food Webs: Do Generalities Exist?.- 17. Assessing the Relative Importance of Trophic Links in Food Webs.- 18. Food Webs and Perturbation Experiments: Theory and Practice.- 19. Energetics and Stability in Belowground Food Webs.- 20. What Equilibrium Behavior of Lotka-Volterra Models Does Not Tell Us About Food Webs.- 21. Effects of Food Chain Length and Omnivory on Population Dynamics in Experimental Food Webs.- 22. Structure and Dynamics of Arctic-Subarctic GrazingWebs in Relation to Primary Productivity.- 23. Food Webs: From the Lindeman Paradigm to a Taxonomic General Theory of Ecology.- 24. Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Food Web Structure and Dynamics.- 25. Control of Interaction Strength in Marine Benthic Communities.- 26. Allochthonous Input Across Habitats, Subsidized Consumers, and Apparent Trophic Cascades: Examples from the Ocean-Land Interface.- 27. Disturbance and Food Chain Length in Rivers.- 28. Factors Driving Temporal and Spatial Variation in Aquatic Floodplain Food Webs.- 29. Food Webs in Space: An Island Biogeographic Perspective.- 30. Food Web Dynamics and Applied Problems.- 31. Structure and Impact of Natural Enemy Guilds in Biological Control of Insect Pests.- 32. Quantifying the Impact of Insecticides on Food Web Structure of Rice Arthropod Populations in a Philippine Farmer’s Irrigated Field: A Case Study.- 33. The Impact of Industrial Fisheries on the Trophic Structure of Marine Ecosystems.- 34. Trophic Flow Networks as Indicators of Ecosystem Stress.- 35. The Role of Indirect Effects in Food Webs.- 36. Productivity and Consumer Regulation—Concepts, Patterns, and Mechanisms.- 37. Time, Space, and Life History: Influences on Food Webs.