Body Size The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems 1st Edition by Alan Hildrew, Ronni Edmonds Brown ISBN 978-0511420047 0511420047

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ISBN 10:    0511420047 

ISBN 13: 978-0511420047

Author: Alan G. Hildrew, Ronni Edmonds-Brown

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.

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 freshwaters: 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 feedbacks 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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