Food Webs: Integration of Patterns and Dynamics.

Section I: Detritus and nutrients: Introduction - Michael J. Vanni and Peter C. DeRuiter Food webs and nutrient cycling in soils - Janne Bengtsson, Heikki Setala and D.W. Zheng Energetics of detritivory and microbivory in soil in theory and practice - David C. Coleman Integrating the microbial loop and the classical food chain into a realistic planktonic food web - Karen G. Porter Trophic structure and carbon flow dynamics in the pelagic community of a large lake -- Ursula Gaedke, Dietmar Straile, and Claudia Pahl- Wostl Biogeochemistry and trophic ecology: a new food-web diagram - Robert W. Sterner, James J. Elser, Thomas H. Chrzanowski, John H. Schampel, and Nicholas B. George Nutrient transport and recycling by consumers in lake food webs: implications for algal communities - Michael J. Vanni Food-web structure and littoral zone coupling to pelagic trophic cascades - Daniel E. Schindler, Stephen R. Carpenter, Kathryn L. Cottingham, Xi He, James R. Hodgson, James F. Kitchell, and Patricia A. Soranno Section II: Interaction of Productivity and Consumption: Introduction - Donald L. DeAngelis, Lennart Persson, and Amy Rosemond Dynamics and interactions in food webs with adaptive foragers - Peter Abrams Nonlinear food web models and their responses to increased basal productivity - Roger Arditi and Jurzy Michalski The relative importance of resource limitation and predator limitation in food chains - Craig W. Osenberg and Gary G. Mittelbach Indirect effects of herbivores modify predicted effects of resources and consumption on plant biomass-- Amy Rosemond Food-web dynamics on some small subtropical islands: effects of top and intermediate predators - David A. Spiller and Thomas W. Schoener Subterranean species, endogenous defenses, plant nutrients, and competition: an example of underappreciated interactions in terrestrial food webs - Donald R. Strong, John L. Maron, and Peter G. Connors Section III: Causes and Effects: Introduction - Janne Bengtsson, Neo Martinez and Donald Strong Assessing the relative importance of trophic links in food webs - David G. Raffaelli and Stephen J. Hall Food webs and perturbation experiments: theory and practice - Peter Yodzis Energetics and stability in belowground food webs - Peter C. DeRuiter, Anje-Margriet Neutel and John C. Moore What equilibrium analysis of Lotka-Volterra equations do not tell us about food-web dynamics - Alan Hastings Effects of food-chain length and omnivory on population dynamics in experimental food webs - Peter J. Morin and Sharon P.