3. Building a Two-Trophic-Level Food Web

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Historical Antecedents 26
6. 3. Building a Two-Trophic-Level Food Web 52
7. 4. Adding a Third (and a Fourth and a Fifth ...) Trophic Level 120
8. 5. Omnivory in a Food Web 160
9. 6. Mutualists, Symbionts, and Facilitators in a Food Web 193
10. 7. Pathogens in a Food Web 241
11. 8. Temporal Variability 277
12. 9. Spatial Variability on Local and Regional Scales 308
13. 10. Ecologically Equivalent and Neutral Species Embedded in a Food Web 344
14. 11. MacArthur’s Recasting Revisited 364
15. 12. Philosophical and Practical Implications 382
16. Literature Cited 405
17. Index 451