The Ecological Role of Water-Column Microbes in the Sea

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. General Introduction 1
4. Part 1 Diversity and Predation
5. Introduction 11
6. Competition, predation, and the structure of the Ambystoma– Rana sylvatica community 20
7. Plant species diversity in a marine intertidal community: importance of herbivore food preference and algal competitive abilities 39
8. Species diversity gradients: synthesis of the roles of predation, competition, and temporal heterogeneity 56
9. Competition, disturbance, and community organization: the provision and subsequent utilization of space in a rocky intertidal community 75
10. Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs 114
11. Predator- mediated coexistence: a nonequilibrium model 123
12. Part 2 Competition, Coexistence, and Extinction
13. Introduction 151
14. The competitive structure of communities: an experimental approach with protozoa 163
15. Competitive exclusion 173
16. Resource competition between planktonic algae: an experimental and theoretical approach. 193
17. Taxonomic diversity of island biotas 204
18. Herbivores and number of tree species in tropical forests 229
19. Mechanisms of succession in natural communities and their role in community stability and organization 257
20. Maintenance of high diversity in coral reef fish communities 283
21. Tree Dispersion, Abundance, and Diversity in a Tropical Dry Fores 306
22. Part 3 Productivity and Resources
23. Introduction 317
24. Evolution of Phosphorus Limitation in Lakes 329
25. Paradox of Enrichment: Destabilization of Exploitation Ecosystems in Ecological Time 332
26. Grazing as an optimization process: grass- ungulate relationships in the Serengeti 335
27. Exploitation ecosystems in gradients of primary productivity 348
28. Regulation of lake primary productivity by food web structure 370
29. The Ecological Role of Water-Column Microbes in the Sea 384
30. Ecosystem Succession and Nutrient Retention: A Hypothesis 391
31. Part 4 Incorporating Trophic and Spatial Structure
32. Introduction 397
33. Are food webs divided into compartments? 408
34. Complex trophic interactions in deserts: an empirical critique of food- web theory 428
35. Perturbation experiments in community ecology: theory and practice 461
36. Dynamics of regional distribution: the core and satellite species hypothesis 474
37. Sources, sinks, and population regulation 486
38. Effects of changing spatial scale on the analysis of landscape pattern 496
39. Part 5 Studies of Distribution and Abundance and the Rise of Conservation Ecology
40. Introduction 507
41. Regulation and stability of host- parasite population interactions: I. Regulatory processes 518
42. Qualitative analysis of insect outbreak systems: the spruce budworm and forest 547
43. Density dependence in time series observations of natural populations: estimation and testing 565
44. Complex dynamics in ecological time series 585
45. Population growth rates and age versus stage- distribution models for teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris Huds.) 602
46. A stage- based population model for loggerhead sea turtles and implications for conservation 611
47. Minimum Population Sizes for Species Conservation 623
48. Estimation of growth and extinction parameters for endangered species 627
49. Risks of population extinction from demographic and environmental stochasticity and random catastrophes 656
50. Part 6 Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology 673
51. Introduction 673
52. On territorial behavior and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds I. Theoretical development 686
53. Optimal Foraging. the Marginal Value Theorem 707
54. Evidence for the existence of three primary strategies in plants and its relevance to ecological and evolutionary theory 715
55. Resource Availability and Plant Antiherbivore Defense 741
56. Phylogenies and the comparative method 746
57. Historical effects and sorting processes as explanations for contemporary ecological patterns: character syndromes in Mediterranean woody plants 761
58. The measurement of selection on correlated characters 787
59. Constraints on chemical coevolution: wild parsnips and the parsnip webworm 804
60. An experimental test of the effects of predation risk on habitat use in fish 818
61. Variation in the costs and benefits of mutualism: the interaction between yuccas and yucca moths 827
62. Index 837