Food Webs: From Connectivity To Energetics

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The most recent volume of this series, Advances in Ecological Research, demonstrates a captivating knowledge of recent advances in the analysis of food webs. A food web describes the network of predator-prey interactions within a community. The simplest description of a food web specifies only who eats whom (a connectance web), with no indication of how much or how often. Chapters in this book begin with a discussion of the most detailed connectance webs ever compiled, and advance to incorporate information on the body size and numerical abundance of the species. The results yield new ways of describing food webs and powerful new models for estimating patterns of energy flow in ecosystems. * Provides fresh ways of describing food webs and applies previous observations in a new context* Ranked as the #1 publication in the Institute for Scientific Information in the Ecology section of 2000* Powerful new theory AND application to some of the best food web data in the world* Many mathematical models for food web structure and function* Integrates previously unconnected perspectives on the description of ecological communities

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Advances in ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH VOLUME 36 Advances in Ecological Research Series Editor: HAL CASWELL Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, Massachussetts Advances in ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH VOLUME 36 Food Webs: From Connectivity to Energetics Edited by HAL CASWELL Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, Massachussetts 2005 Elsevier Academic Press 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA 84 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8RR, UK This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright ß 2005, Elsevier Ltd. except: Chapter 1, ‘‘Food Webs, Body Size, and Species Abundance in Ecological Community Description,’’ copyright ß 2005 by Tomas Jonsson, Joel E. Cohen, and Stephen R. Carpenter. Chapter 3, ‘‘Estimating Relative Energy Fluxes Using the Food Web, Species Abundance, and Body Size,’’ copyright ß 2005 by Daniel C. Reuman and Joel E. Cohen. Elsevier reserves all rights to the portions copyrighted by Elsevier. The authors reserve all rights to the copyrighted by them. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. The appearance of the code at the bottom of the first page of a chapter in this book indicates the Publisher’s consent that copies of the chapter may be made for personal or internal use of specific clients. This consent is given on the condition, however, that the copier pay the stated per copy fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (www.copyright.com), for copying beyond that permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law. This consent does not extend to other kinds of copying, such as copying for general distribution, for advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works, or for resale. Copy fees for pre-2005 chapters are as shown on the title pages. If no fee code appears on the title page, the copy fee is the same as for current chapters. 0065-2504/2005 $35.00 Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Right Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, E-mail: [email protected] You may also complete your request on-line via the Elsevier homepage (http://elsevier.com), by selecting ‘‘Customer Support’’ and then ‘‘Obtaining Permissions.’’ For all information on all Elsevier Academic Press publications visi