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| Contributors to Volume 37 | |
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| Preface | |
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| Foreword: Message in a Bottle | |
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| Understanding Ecological Concepts: The Role of Laboratory Systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rationale | |
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| Model Choice | |
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| Simplicity | |
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| Risk and Reward | |
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| Concepts in Population Ecology | |
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| Density Dependence | |
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| Nicholson's Concepts | |
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| Chaos | |
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| Competition | |
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| Predation | |
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| Stability and Complexity in Ecosystems | |
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| Future Perspectives | |
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| Population Dynamics | |
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| Role of Productivity in Ecosystems | |
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| Role of Weak Links in Ecosystems | |
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| Role of Noise in Ecological Interactions | |
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| Role of Space in Ecological Interactions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Complexity, Evolution, and Persistence in Host-Parasitoid Experimental Systems With Callosobruchus Beetles as the Host | |
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| Summary | |
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| General Introduction | |
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| Persistence of a Simple Host-Parasitoid System | |
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| Bottom-Up Control Factors | |
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| Top-Down Control Factors | |
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| Persistence of Complex Host-Parasitoid Assemblies | |
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| Population Dynamics in a Three-Species System: At the Interface Between Simplicity and Complexity | |
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| Experiment | |
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| Detection of Chaos by a Non-Mechanistic Model | |
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| Parameter Estimation and Reconstruction of Population Dynamics by a Semi-Mechanistic Model | |
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| Results and Discussion | |
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| Host-Parasitoid Interaction and Beyond | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Basic Ecology of the Experimental Organisms | |
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| Selection Model | |
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| Assumption of Noise and Parameter Estimation | |
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| References | |
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| Population Dynamics, Life History, and Demography: Lessons From Drosophila | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Populations Without Age Structure | |
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| Evolution of Density-Dependent Rates of Population Growth | |
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| Evolution of Population Stability | |
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| Populations with Age Structure | |
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| Age-Specific Mortality Rates | |
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| Mortality-Rate Plateaus | |
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| Fecundity Plateaus | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Nonlinear Stochastic Population Dynamics: The Flour Beetle Tribolium as an Effective Tool of Discovery | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Animal Model | |
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| Deterministic Skeleton | |
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| Stochastic Models | |
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| Parameter Estimation and Model Validation | |
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| Experimental Confirmation of Nonlinear Dynamic Phenomena | |
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| Bifurcations in the Dynamic Behavior of Populations | |
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| A Second Bifurcation Experiment: The Hunt for Chaos | |
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| Chaos and Population Outbreaks | |
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| Back in the Saddle (Node) Again | |
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| Phase Switching in Population Cycles | |
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| Lattice Effects | |
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| Anatomy of Chaos | |
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| Mechanistic Models of the Stochasticity | |
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| Beyond Beetles | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Population Dynamics in a Noisy World: Lessons From a Mite Experimental System | |
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| Summary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Mite Model System | |
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| The Effect of Noise on Population Dynamics | |
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| Investigating the Mechanism: "Top-Down" Time Series Analysis | |
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| Investigating the Mechanism: "Bottom-Up" Experiments on Mite Biology | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Global Persistence Despite Local Extinction in Acarine Predator-Prey Systems: Lessons From Experimental and Mathematical Exercises | |
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| Summary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Zooming in on Local Predator-Prey Dynamics | |
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| A Caricature of Local Predator-Prey Dynamics | |
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| Zooming out to the Metapopulation Level: The "Baseline" Model | |
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| Deriving a Hierarchy of Models from the "Baseline" Model | |
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| Confronting the "Baseline" Model with Experimental Tests | |
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| Testing the Robustness of the "Baseline" Model by Extended Simulations | |
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| Is the "Baseline" Model Evolutionarily Robust? | |
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| Lessons from Mathematical and Experimental Exercises | |
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| Differential Prey Patch Vulnerability Stabilizes Predator-Prey Interaction | |
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| References | |
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| Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Experimental Plankton Communities | |
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| Summary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Predator and Prey in the Chemostat-A Simple Story? | |
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| Testing Hypotheses of Mechanism | |
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| Rapid Evolution: A Clonal Approach | |
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| Rapidly Evolving Rotifers | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| The Contribution of Laboratory Experiments on Protists to Understanding Population and Metapopulation Dynamics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Protists as Model Systems | |
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| Early Experiments with Protozoa and the Birth of Population Ecology | |
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| Population Control and Environmental Variation | |
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| Stabilizing Predator-Prey Interactions in Populations and Metapopulations | |
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| Source and Sink Dynamics | |
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| Omnivory and Stability | |
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| The Interaction Between Productivity and IGP | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Microbial Experimental Systems in Ecology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The History of Microbial Experimental Systems in Ecology | |
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| G.F. Gause and His Predecessors | |
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| Studies Since Gause | |
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| Strengths and Limitations of Microbial Experimental Systems | |
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| Strengths of Microbial Experimental Systems | |
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| Limitations of Microbial Experimental Systems | |
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| The Role of Microbial Experimental Systems in Ecology: Consensus and Controversy | |
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| The Role of Microbial Experimental Systems | |
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| Controversies Surrounding Experimental Systems and Microbial Experimental Systems | |
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| Recent Studies of Microbial Experimental Systems | |
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| The Ecological Causes of Diversity | |
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| The Ecological Consequences of Diversity | |
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| The Response of Diversity to Environmental Change | |
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| Directions for Future Research | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Parasitism Between Co-Infecting Bacteriophages | |
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| Summary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Phage Biology and Intracellular Conflicts | |
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| Parasitism in Co-Infecting RNA Phages | |
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| Frequency-Dependent Selection and Virus Parasitism | |
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| How Many Viruses Should Enter a Cell? | |
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| Parasitism in Plant and Animal Viruses | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Constructing Nature: Laboratory Models as Necessary Tools for Investigating Complex Ecological Communities | |
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| Time, Scale, and Observation in Ecological Systems | |
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| Contingent Structure and Reciprocal Interactions | |
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| Historical Contingency and Ecological Processes | |
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| The Interaction of Ecological Processes Operating at Different Spatial Scales | |
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| What These Examples Tell Us | |
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| Problematic Field Studies | |
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| The Role of Microcosms in Community Ecology | |
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| Endnote | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| Cumulative List of Titles | |