UID:
almahu_9948233643802882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 385 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511525513 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in ecology
Content:
Fluctuations in fish populations in lakes can cascade through food webs to alter nutrient cycling, algal biomass and primary production. Trophic cascades may interact with nutrients and physical factors to explain most of the variance in lake ecosystem process rates. In this 1993 book, a multidisciplinary research team tests this idea by manipulating whole lakes experimentally, and coordinating this with palaeolimnological studies, simulation modelling, and small-scale enclosure experiments. Consequences of predator-prey interactions, behavioural responses of fishes, diel vertical migration of zooplankton, plankton community change, primary production, nutrient cycling and microbial processes are described. Palaeolimnological techniques enable the reconstruction of trophic interactions from past decades. Prospects for analysing the interaction of food web structure and nutrient input in lakes are explored.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Cascading trophic interactions / J.F. Kitchell and S.R. Carpenter -- 2. Experimental lakes, manipulations and measurements / S.R. Carpenter and J.F. Kitchell -- 3. Statistical analysis of the ecosystem experiments / S.R. Carpenter -- 4. The fish populations / J.R. Hodgson, X. He, and J.F. Kitchell -- 5. Fish behavioral and community responses to manipulation / X. He, R. Wright and J.F. Kitchell -- 6. Roles of fish predation: piscivory and planktivory / X. He, J.F. Kitchell, J.R. Hodgson, R. Wright, P.A. Soranno, D.M. Lodge, P.A. Cochran, D. Benkowski and N. Bouwes -- 7. Dynamics of the phantom midge: implications for zooplankton / P.A. Soranno, S.R. Carpenter and S.M. Moegenburg -- 8. Zooplankton community dynamics / P.A. Soranno, S.R. Carpenter and M.M. Elser -- 9. Effects of predators and food supply on diel vertical migration of Daphnia / M.L. Dini, P.A. Soranno, M.D. Scheuerell and S.R. Carpenter -- 10. Zooplankton biomass and body size / P.A. Soranno, S.R. Carpenter and X. He -- 11. Phytoplankton community dynamics / S.R. Carpenter, J.A. Morrice, J.J. Elser, A.L. At. Amand and N.A. MacKay -- 12. Metalimnetic phytoplankton dynamics / A.L. St. Amand and S.R. Carpenter -- 13. Primary production and its interactions with nutrients and light transmission / S.R. Carpenter, J.A. Morrice, P.A. Soranno, J.J. Elser, N.A. MacKay and A.L. St. Amand -- 14. Heterotropic microbial processes / M.L. Pace -- 15. Annual fossil records of food-web manipulation / P.R. Leavitt, P.R. Sanford, S.R. Carpenter, J.F. Kitchell and D. Benkowski -- 16. Simulation models of the trophic cascade: predictions and evaluations / S.R. Carpenter and J.F. Kitchell -- 17. Synthesis and new directions / J.F. Kitchell and S.R. Carpenter.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521431453
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511525513
