The Trophic Cascade in Lakes Paperback / softback
Edited by Stephen R. (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Carpenter, James F. (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Kitchell
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Ecology series
Paperback / softback
Description
Fluctuations in fish populations in lakes can cascade through food webs to alter nutrient cycling, algal biomass and primary production.
Trophic cascades may interact with nutrients and physical factors to explain most of the variance in lake ecosystem process rates.
In this 1993 book, a multidisciplinary research team tests this idea by manipulating whole lakes experimentally, and coordinating this with palaeolimnological studies, simulation modelling, and small-scale enclosure experiments.
Consequences of predator-prey interactions, behavioural responses of fishes, diel vertical migration of zooplankton, plankton community change, primary production, nutrient cycling and microbial processes are described.
Palaeolimnological techniques enable the reconstruction of trophic interactions from past decades.
Prospects for analysing the interaction of food web structure and nutrient input in lakes are explored.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 40 Tables, unspecified; 3 Halftones, unspecified; 112 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/07/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521566841
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 40 Tables, unspecified; 3 Halftones, unspecified; 112 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/07/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521566841
