A central controversy in ecology addresses the relative importance of competi-tion and
predation in determining the characteristics of organisms (eg behavior, life history) …

Metabolism provides a basis for using first principles of physics, chemistry, and biology to
link the biology of individual organisms to the ecology of populations, communities, and …

Ecology of Shallow Lakes brings together current understanding of the mechanisms that
drive the diametrically opposite states of water clarity, shown by the cover paintings, found in …

Predation may generate patterns in the structure of communities similar to those produced
by competition. The potential role of spatial heterogeneity in promoting the coexistence of …

Actual food—web structure or function is difficult to determine based on visual observation,
gut analyses, or the feeding interactions expected from a given list of species. We used C …

We examined the statistical analyses of experimental data in 95 papers published during
1966–1990 on the ecology, physiology, and behavior of freshwater invertebrate …

The ability of planktivorous fish to regulate the population dynamics of Daphnia galeata in
Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, was examined during spring and summer 1987. Low rates of …

Plankton have traditionally been viewed as the basis for limnetic food webs, with
zooplankton acting as a gateway for energy passing between phytoplanktonic primary …

We tested 4 current hypotheses about how trout predation and habitat structure affect lentic
invertebrate assemblages. The hypotheses were 1) trout predation affects larger-bodied …

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes (δ13C and δ15N) were used to track energy flow and
nutrient cycling pathways in the plankton food web of a subarctic Alaskan lake. Results …