Trophic Cascade in Lakes

Name: Trophic Cascade in Lakes
Price: 29.03 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780521566841

ISBN-10: 0521566843

ISBN-13: 9780521566841

Edition: 1996

Authors: Stephen R. Carpenter, James F. Kitchell, H. J. B. Birks, J. A. Wiens

List price: $56.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $29.03

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In this book, a multidisciplinary research team examines the importance of trophic cascades in aquatic ecology. By manipulating whole lakes experimentally, they explain the variance in the lake ecosystem process rates.

Book details

List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/13/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

John P. Smol is a professor in the Biology Department at Queen's University (Canada), with a cross-appointment at the School of Environmental Studies. He co-directs the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL). Professor Smol is co-editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology and holds the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change.William M. Last is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at University of Manitoba (Canada) and is co-editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology.




Cascading trophic interactions



Experimental lakes, manipulations and measurements



Statistical analysis of the ecosystem experiments



The fish populations



Fish behavioral and community responses to manipulation



Roles of fish predation: piscivory and planktivory



Dynamics of the phantom midge: implications for zooplankton



Zooplankton community dynamics



Effects of predators and food supply and diel vertical migration of Daphnia



Zooplankton biomass and body size



Phytoplankton community dynamics



Metalimnetic phytoplankton



Primary production and its interactions with nutrients and light transmission



Heterotrophic microbial processes



Annual fossil record of food-web manipulation



Simulation models of the trophic cascade: predictions and evaluations



Synthesis and new directions


Index