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How Species Interact Altering the Standard View on Trophic Ecology

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

11.05.2012

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

186

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/1,5 cm

Gewicht

449 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-991383-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

11.05.2012

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

186

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/1,5 cm

Gewicht

449 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-991383-1

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: How Species Interact

    • Preface

    • 1. Alternative theories of trophic interaction

    • 1.1 Monod vs. Contois: resource-dependent and ratio-dependent bacteria

    • 1.2 The standard predator-prey model of ecology

    • 1.3 The Arditi-Ginzburg ratio-dependent model

    • 1.4 Donor control and ratio dependence

    • 1.5 Predator-dependent models

    • 1.6 What happens at low consumer density? The gradual interference hypothesis

    • 1.7 Biomass conversion

    • 2. Direct measurements of the functional response

    • 2.1 Insect predators and parasitoids, snails, fish, and others: laboratory measurements

    • 2.1.1 Manipulating the consumer density alone

    • 2.1.2 Measuring interference in the presence of a saturating functional response

    • 2.1.3 The Arditi-Akçakaya predator-dependent model

    • 2.1.4 Application to literature data

    • 2.1.5 Does interference increase gradually?

    • 2.2 Wasps and chrysomelids: a field experiment

    • 2.3 Wolves and moose: field observations

    • 2.3.1 Wolf social structure and spatial scales

    • 2.3.2 Model fitting and model selection methods

    • 2.3.3 The wolf-moose functional response is ratio-dependent

    • 2.4 Additional direct tests of ratio dependence

    • 2.4.1 Bark beetles

    • 2.4.2 Shrimps

    • 2.4.3 Egg parasitoids

    • 2.4.4 Benthic flatworms

    • 2.5 Identifying the functional response in time series

    • 3. Indirect evidence: food chain equilibria

    • 3.1 Cascading responses to harvesting at the top of the food chain

    • 3.2 Enrichment response when the number of trophic levels is fixed

    • 3.3 Enrichment response when the number of trophic levels increases with enrichment

    • 3.4 The paradox of enrichment

    • 3.5 Donor control and stability of food webs

    • 3.6 Why the world is green

    • 4. How gradual interference and ratio dependence emerge

    • 4.1 Experimental evidence of the role of predator clustering

    • 4.1.1 A microcosm experiment with cladocerans

    • 4.1.2 Predator aggregations lead to ratio dependence

    • 4.2 Refuges and donor control

    • 4.2.1 A simple exploratory theoretical model

    • 4.2.2 From donor control to ratio dependence

    • 4.3 The role of directed movements in the formation of population spatial structures

    • 4.3.1 Self-organization due to accelerated movement

    • 4.3.2 Spatially-structured predator-prey systems

    • 4.3.3 Generalization

    • 4.4 Ratio dependence and biological control

    • 4.4.1 The biological control paradox

    • 4.4.2 Trophotaxis and biological control

    • 4.5 Emergence of gradual interference: an individual-based approach

    • 4.5.1 A qualitative model based on predator home ranges

    • 4.5.2 An individual-based model based on trophotaxis

    • 5. The ratio dependence controversy

    • 5.1 How interference estimates can be wrong

    • 5.2 The paradox of enrichment and the cascading enrichment response: Is there any evidence that they exist?

    • 5.3 The fallacy of instantism

    • 5.4 Are population cycles really caused by predation?

    • 5.5 Mechanistic vs. phenomenological theories

    • 5.6 "The truth is always in the middle": How much truth is in this statement?

    • 6. It must be beautiful

    • 6.1 Scale invariance and symmetries

    • 6.2 Kolmogorov's insight

    • 6.3 Akçakaya's ratio-dependent model for lynx-hare cycling

    • 6.4 The "limit myth"

    • Appendices

    • 3.A Food chain responses to increased primary production

    • 3.A.1 Prey-dependent four-level food chain

    • 3.A.2 Ratio-dependent three-level food chain

    • 3.B Cascading response in the ratio-dependent model

    • 6.A How a revised ecology textbook could look

    • References