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| Contributors to Volume 45 | |
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| Preface | |
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| Determinants of Density-Body Size Scaling Within Food Webs and Tools for Their Detection | |
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| Abstract | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Density-Mass from Different Angles | |
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| DMR and Food Webs | |
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| Trophic Position | |
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| Gape Limitation and DMR | |
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| Discontinuities and the DMR | |
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| Statistical Issues | |
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| Frequency Distribution | |
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| Bivariate Relationships | |
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| Multiple DMR in the Same Dataset | |
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| DMR and Its Detection in a Metacommunity | |
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| Study System | |
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| Five DMRs in a Single System | |
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| Cross-Community at Different Levels | |
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| Amphibians as an Example of Discontinuous DMR | |
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| Evaluation of Methodological Performance | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| References | |
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| Predicted Effects of Behavioural Movement and Passive Transport on Individual Growth and Community Size Structure in Marine Ecosystems | |
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| Abstract | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Methods | |
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| Model Development | |
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| Growth and Mortality | |
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| Spatial Flux | |
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| Numerical Solution | |
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| Parameter Choices | |
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| Simulations | |
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| Data | |
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| Results | |
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| Consequences of Behavioural Movement on Size Spectra | |
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| Life Histories | |
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| Parameter Sensitivities | |
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| Consequences of Adding Abiotic Movement | |
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| Effects of Simulated Phytoplankton Bloom | |
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| Data | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| References | |
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| Seeing Double: Size-Based and Taxonomic Views of Food Web Structure | |
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| Abstract | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Allometry of Trophic Relations | |
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| Overcoming Pitfalls Through a Plurality of Viewpoints | |
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| Individual-Based Food Webs: An Emerging Field | |
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| Methods | |
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| Study Sites-The Seven Food Webs | |
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| Aggregation into Different Levels of Resolution and Groupings | |
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| Response Variables Analysed | |
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| Statistical Analyses | |
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| Results | |
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| Response Variables Compared | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Individuals and Species Averages-Effects of Resolution | |
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| Taxonomy Versus Size-Effects of Grouping | |
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| Dynamic Implications-Parameterisation of Dynamic Food Web Models | |
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| Caveats | |
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| Future Directions | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Supplementary Figures | |
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| Details on Regression Models | |
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| References | |
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| Body Size, Life History and the Structure of Host-Parasitoid Networks | |
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| Abstract | |
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| An Introduction to Ecological Network Theory and Host-Parasitoid Networks | |
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| Ecological Networks and Their Role in Ecology | |
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| Host-Parasitoid Networks | |
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| The Importance of Host-Parasitoid Networks in Ecological Research | |
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| The Aims of This Review | |
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| The Structuring of Trophic Networks | |
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| What is Network Structure and How is it Determined? | |
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| Body Size as a Determinant of Food-Web Structure | |
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| The Structure of Host-Parasitoid Networks | |
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| Limitations on Host Range | |
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| Fundamental Niches in Host-Parasitoid Networks | |
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| The Role of Phylogeny in Host-Parasitoid Network Structure | |
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| Life History and Host Range | |
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| Egg Placement | |
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| Developmental Diapause | |
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| Realised Niche in Parasitoids | |
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| Optimal Foraging | |
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| Maximising Host Encounter Rate | |
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| Host Quality and Offspring Fitness | |
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| The Optimal Foraging Strategy | |
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| Parasitoid Life History and Host Electivity | |
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| Time and Egg-Limitation | |
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| The Cost of Egg or Time Limitation. | |
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| Egg-Limitation, Life History and Electivity | |
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| Time Limitation, Life History and Electivity | |
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| Handling Time and Life History in Parasitoids | |
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| Sex Allocation and Host Quality | |
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| The Sex Allocation Process | |
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| Allocation Strategies and Parasitoid Life History | |
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| Sex Allocation and Network Structure | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Determinants of Fundamental Niche | |
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| The Determinants of Realised Niche | |
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| Future Research Avenues and the Effect of Spatio-Temporal Variation in Host-Parasitoid Networks | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| References | |
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| The Role of Body Size in Complex Food Webs: A Cold Case | |
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| Abstract | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Methods | |
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| The Weddell Sea Data Set | |
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| Functional Consumer Classification of the Weddell Sea Food Web | |
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| Food Web Parameters | |
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| Data Analysis: Statistics, Extinction Scenarios and Robustness of Weddell Sea Food Web | |
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| Results | |
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| The Weddell Sea Food Web Data Set | |
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| Functional Consumer Classification of the Weddell Sea Food Web | |
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| Extinction Scenarios and Robustness of the Weddell Sea Food Web | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Implications of This Study | |
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| The Weddell Sea Food Web and Functional Consumer Classification | |
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| Extinction Scenarios the Robustness of the Weddell Sea Food Web | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Appendix | |
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| References | |
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| Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Individual-Based Food Webs | |
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| Abstract | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Material and Methods | |
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| The Models | |
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| Study Area and Sampling Methods of a Large Individual-Based Food Web | |
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| Results | |
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| Sampling Effects in Individual-Based Food Webs | |
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| Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Individual Rank in Connectivity | |
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| Effect of Total Length on Intraspecific Variance in Prey Consumption | |
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| Expectations from Genetic and Ecological Drift to Study Diversity in Individual-Based Food Webs | |
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| Effect of Intraspecific Variability on Species Level Food Web Connectance | |
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| Summary and Discussion | |
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| Models of Eco-evolutionary Dynamics as a General Framework | |
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| Perspective | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| References | |
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| Scale Dependence of Predator-Prey Mass Ratio: Determinants and Applications | |
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| Abstract | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Size Matters to Food Webs | |
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| Predator-Prey Mass Ratio: Its Use and Problems | |
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| Goal of the Present Study | |
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| Data | |
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| Scale Dependence of Predator-Prey Mass Ratio | |
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| Methods and Results | |
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| Mechanisms | |
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| Application | |
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| Determinants of Predator-Prey Mass Ratio | |
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| Statistical Analysis | |
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| Results | |
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| Application | |
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| Perspectives | |
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| Other Determinants of Predator-Prey Mass Ratio | |
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| Functional Response | |
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| Food-Web Modelling | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| Cumulative List of Titles | |