Body Size: The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems
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Part of Ecological Reviews
- Editors:
- Alan G. Hildrew, Queen Mary University of London
- David G. Raffaelli, University of York
- Ronni Edmonds-Brown, University of Hertfordshire
- Date Published: August 2007
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- isbn: 9780511292682
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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.
Read more- A wide range of aquatic topics are covered in relation to body size, providing a 'one-stop-shop' for this subject
- Well written and comprehensive chapters provide an authoritative, yet accessible, text
- Details how the wide ranges of body size in aquatic communities can serve to predict the features of those ecological systems
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'I can recommend this book to a wide audience. Not only students but experienced researchers also will find many stimulating chapters and a comprehensive list of the literature related to body size at the end of each chapter. The latter turns this book into an invaluable literature resource. …readers of this book will gain motivation to explore the importance and the limitations of body-size-related approaches to ecology in further studies.' Basic and Applied Ecology
See more reviews'The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) is a promising, upcoming conceptual framework which should be followed attentively in its future development and applications … this book will be interesting for anyone working with large databases and on the look for new applications and tests. Also, biology students wishing to be briefed on the state of the art of ecological analysis, will find this volume quite inspiring.' Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie
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the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems is a good student book
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- Date Published: August 2007
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511292682
- contains: 102 b/w illus. 20 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
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.
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