Body size
Subtitle: the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems
By: edited by Alan Hildrew, David Raffaelli, Ronni Edmonds-Brown.
Contributors: Hildrew, A. G.; Raffaelli, D. G.; Edmonds-Brown, Ronni.
Series: Ecological reviews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780521861724; 9780521679671
Subjects: Aquatic animals -- Size; Aquatic ecology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Body size and suspension feeding / Stuart Humphries; title: Life histories and body size / David Atkinson and Andrew G. Hirst; title: Relationship between biomass turnover and body size for stream communities / Alexander D. Huryn and Arthur C. Benke; title: Body size in streams : macroinvertebrate community size composition along natural and human-induced environmental gradients / Colin R. Townsend and Ross M. Thompson; title: Body size and predatory interactions in fresh waters : scaling from individuals to communities / Guy Woodward and Philip Warren; title: Body size and trophic cascades in lakes / J. Iwan Jones and Erik Jeppesen; title: Body size and scale invariance : multifractals in invertebrate communities / Peter E. Schmid and Jenny M. Schmid-Araya; title: Body size and biogeography / B.J. Finlay and G.F. Esteban; title: By wind, wings or water : body size, dispersal and range size in aquatic invertebrates / Simon D. Rundle, David T. Bilton and Andrew Foggo; title: Body size and diversity in marine systems / Richard M. Warwick; title: Interplay between individual growth and population feedbacks shapes body-size distributions / Lennart Persson and André M. De Roos; title: The consequences of body-size in model microbial ecosystems / Owen L. Petchey, Zachary T. Long and Peter J. Morin; title: Body size, exploitation and conservation of marine organisms / Simon Jennings and John D. Reynolds; title: How body size mediates the role of animals in nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems / Robert O. Hall, Jr. ... [et al.]; title: Body sizes in food chains of animal predators and parasites / Joel E. Cohen; title: Body size in aquatic ecology : important, but not the whole story / Alan G. Hildrew, David G. Raffaelli and Ronni Edmonds-Brown.