The Trophic Cascade in Lakes

ISBN-13: 9780521431453 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 400 str.

Stephen R. Carpenter; James F. Kitchell

Opis

This 1993 book documents the importance of trophic cascades in aquatic ecology.

Recenzje

"This book is of interest to workers in ecology, aquatic ecology, resource management, and limnology." Environment International

Spis treści

1. Cascading trophic interactions; 2. Experimental lakes, manipulations and measurements; 3. Statistical analysis of the ecosystem experiments; 4. The fish populations; 5. Fish behavioral and community responses to manipulation; 6. Roles of fish predation: piscivory and planktivory; 7. Dynamics of the phantom midge: implications for zooplankton; 8. Zooplankton community dynamics; 9. Effects of predators and food supply and diel vertical migration of Daphnia; 10. Zooplankton biomass and body size; 11. Phytoplankton community dynamics; 12. Metalimnetic phytoplankton; 13. Primary production and its interactions with nutrients and light transmission; 14. Heterotrophic microbial processes; 15. Annual fossil record of food-web manipulation; 16. Simulation models of the trophic cascade: predictions and evaluations; 17. Synthesis and new directions; Index.