Dynamic Food Webs

Section 1: Dynamic Food Webs
Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change
Peter C. de Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters and John C. Moore


1.2 Food web science: Moving on the path from abstraction to prediction
Kirk O. Winemiller and Craig A. Layman


Section 2: Dynamic Food Web Structures


2.0 Introduction to Section 2: Dynamic Food Web Structures
Variation in community architecture as stabilizing mechanisms of food webs
John C. Moore


2.1 From food webs to ecological networks: linking non-linear trophic interactions with nutrient competition
Ulrich Brose, Eric L. Berlow and Neo D. Martinez


2.2 Food web architecture and its effects on consumer resource oscillations in experimental pond ecosystems
Mathew A. Leibold, Spencer R. Hall and Ottar Bjornstad


2.3 Food web structure: from scale invariance to scale dependence, and back again?
Carolin Banašek-Richter, Marie-France Cattin and Louis-Félix Bersier


2.4 Role of Space, Time, and Variability in Food Web Dynamics
Kevin McCann, Joe Rasmussen, James Umbanhowar and Murray Humphries


Section 3: Population Dynamics and Food Webs


3.0 Introduction Section 3: Population Dynamics and Food Webs
Population dynamics and food webs: drifting away from the Lotka-Volterra paradigm
Giorgos D. Kokkoris

3.1 Modelling evolving food webs
Alan J. McKane and Barbara Drossel


3.2 The Influence of individual growth and development on the structure of ecological communities
André M. De Roos and Lennart Persson


3.3 Linking flexible food-web structure to population stability: a theoretical consideration on adaptive food webs
Michio Kondoh


3.4 Inducible Defenses in Food Webs
Matthijs Vos, Bob W. Kooi, Don L. DeAngelis and Wolf M. Mooij


Section 4: Body Size and Food Webs


4.0 Introduction to Section 4: Body Size and Food Webs
Wearing Elton's wellingtons: why body-size still matters in food webs
Philip H Warren


4.1 Species’ average body mass and numerical abundance in a community food web: statistical questions in estimating the relationship
Joel E. Cohen and Stephen R. Carpenter


4.2 Body size scalings and the dynamics of ecological systems
Lennart Persson and André M. De Roos


4.3 Body size, Interaction Strength and Food Web dynamics
Mark C. Emmerson, José M. Montoya and Guy Woodward


4.4 Body-size determinants of the structure and dynamics of ecological networks: scaling from the individual to the ecosystem
Guy Woodward, Bo Ebenman, Marc C. Emmerson, José M. Montoya, J.M. Olesen, A. Valido and Philip H. Warren


Section 5: Nutrient and Resource Dynamics and Food Webs


5.0 Introduction to Section 5: Nutrient and Resource Dynamics and Food Webs
Understanding the mutual relationships between the dynamics of food webs, resources and nutrients
Tobias Purtauf and Stefan Scheu


5.1 Variability in soil food web structure across time and space
Janne Bengtsson and Matty P. Berg


5.2 Functional roles of leaf litter detritus in terrestrial food webs
John L. Sabo, Candan U. Soykan and Andrew Keller


5.3 Stability and interaction strength within soil food webs of a European forest transect: the impact of N deposition
Dagmar Schröter and Stefan C. Dekker


5.4 Differential effects of consumers on C, N, and P dynamics: insights from long-term research
Wyatt F. Cross, Amy D. Rosemond, Jonathan P. Benstead, Sue L. Eggert and J. Bruce Wallace


5.5 Measuring the ability of food to fuel work in ecosystems
Steven H. Cousins, Kathryn V. Bracewell and Kevin Attree


5.6 Towards a new generation of dynamical soil decomposer food web model
Stephan C. Dekker, Stefan Scheu, Dagmar Schröter, Heikki Setälä, Maciej Szanser and Theo P. Traas


Section 6: Biodiversity and Food Web Structure and Function


6.0 Introduction to Section 6: Biodiversity and Food Web Structure and Function
Food Webs, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Functioning
Peter J. Morin


6.1 Food webs and the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Michel Loreau and Elisa Thébault


6.2 Biodiversity, food web structure, and the partitioning of biomass within and among trophic levels
Jeremy W. Fox


6.3 Trophic position, biotic context, and abiotic factors determine species contributions to ecosystem functioning
Amy Downing and J. Timothy Wootton


6.4 Does biological complexity relate to functional attributes of soil food webs?
Heikki Setälä


6.5 Diversity, Productivity and Invasibility Relationships in Rock Pool Food Webs
Beatrix E. Beisner and Tamara N. Romanuk


6.6 Measuring the functional diversity of food webs
Owen L Petchey, Jill McGrady-Steed and Peter J Morin



Section 7 Environmental Change, Perturbations and Food Webs


7.0 Tracing perturbation effects in food webs: the potential and limitation of experimental approaches
Dave Raffaelli


7.1 Insight into pollution effects in complex riverine habitats: A role for food web experiments
Joseph M. Culp, Nancy E. Glozier, Kevin J. Cash, and Donald J. Baird


7.2 Perturbations and Indirect Effects in Complex Food Webs
José M. Montoya, Mark E. Emmerson, Ricard V. Solé and Guy Woodward


7.3 Dealing with model uncertainty in trophodynamic models: a Patagonian example
Mariano Koen-Alonso and Peter Yodzis


7.4 Describing a species-rich river food web using stable isotopes, stomach contents, and functional experiments
Craig A. Layman, Kirk O. Winemiller and D. Albrey Arrington


7.5 Communicating Ecology through Food Webs: Visualizing and quantifying the effects of stocking alpine lakes with trout
Sarah Harper-Smith, Eric L. Berlow, Roland A. Knapp, Richard J. Williams and Neo D. Martinez


Section 8 Thematic reviews


8.0 Introduction to the thematic reviews
Peter de Ruiter, John C. Moore, Volkmar Wolters


8.1 How do complex food webs persist in nature?
Anthony I. Dell, Giorgos D. Kokkoris, Carolin Banasek-Richter, Louis-Felix Bersier, Jennifer A. Dunne, Michio Kondoh, Tamara N. Romanuk and Neo D. Martinez


8.2 Population dynamics and food web structure—Predicting measurable food web properties with minimal detail and resolution
John L. Sabo, Beatrix E. Beisner, Eric L. Berlow, Kim Cuddington, Alan Hastings, Mariano Koen-Alonso, Kevin McCann, Carlos Melian and John Moore


8.3 Central issues for aquatic food webs: from chemical cues to whole system responses
Ursula M. Scharler, Florence D. Hulot, Donald J. Baird, Wyatt F. Cross, Joseph M. Culp, Craig A. Layman, Dave Raffaelli, Matthijs Vos and Kirk O. Winemiller


8.4 Spatial aspects of food webs
Ulrich Brose, Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, Anna Eklöf, Janne Bengtsson, Matty Berg, Steven H. Cousins, Christian Mulder, Herman A. Verhoef and Volkmar Wolters