The dynamics of spatially coupled food webs.

By K. McCann, J. Rasmussen, J. Umbanhowar. Ecology Letters, 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science

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• Embracing variability in amino acid δ15N fractionation: mechanisms, implications, and applications for trophic ecology (2016, background): “Nielsen et al. (2015) recently reached a similar conclusion based on their meta- analysis of wildcaught marine consumers.”
• Spatial patterns of autochthonous and allochthonous resources in aquatic food webs (2008, background): “Food webs encompass a large range of spatial scales although food web models are often couched within a spatial context (Holt 2002; McCann et al. 2005 ).”
• Human Involvement in Food Webs (2010, background): “(68) showed that more spatially confined consumers, such as those occurring in lakes and ponds, exerted stronger top-down effects than wider ranging consumers in marine systems, which typically encounter multiple dispersed prey populations (5).”
• Coupled energy pathways and the resilience of size-structured food webs (2011, background): “Detritus pathways typically exhibit slower turnover than primary producer-based pathways (Neutel et al. 2002; McCann et al. 2005; Rooney et al. 2006).”
• Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “The coarsest measure of link strength is simply the occurrence (presence/absence 94 Layer et al., 2010; McCann et al., 2005a,b; O'Gorman and Emmerson, 2010; Woodward et al., 2005).”
• Conservation of species interaction networks (2010, background): “Decades of theoretical work have suggested that network structure may affect ecosystem stability (May, 1973; McNaughton, 1978; Pimm, 1979; Neutel et al., 2002; Krause et al., 2003; McCann et al., 2005).”
• The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity. (2007, background): “…mobile animals and their resources has rarely been incorporated into BEF experiments (France & Duffy 2006), yet a key feature of top predators is their high mobility and ability to connect dynamics of spatially or functionally distinct communities through their movements (McCann et al. 2005).”
• The ecological causes of individual specialisation. (2011, background): “For instance, mobile top predators have the opportunity to link spatially separate food chains (McCann et al. 2005), which may have important stabilising effects on community dynamics (Rooney et al. 2006).”
• The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems. (2011, background): “At the other end of the hierarchy, turnover among genes, populations, or species across habitats within a landscape ( β -diversity) is known to infl uence trophic interactions and the stability of food webs ( Polis et al., 1997 ; McCann et al., 2005 ).”
• Spatial and seasonal variability in the diet of round goby (Neogobius melanostomus): stable isotopes indicate that stomach contents overestimate the importance of dreissenids (2012, background): “Quantifying spatial and temporal variability in food web structure and fish diet remains a challenge for ecologists (Warren 1989; Martinez et al. 1999; McCann et al. 2005).”
• Resurrecting the ghost of green revolutions past: The brown planthopper as a recurring threat to high-yielding rice production in tropical Asia (2012, background): “…of the arthropod predators and many insect parasitoids that frequent rice in tropical Asia—to increase rapidly in response to increasing pest abundance (i.e., “birdfeeder effect”) and play key roles in stabilizing food webs (Kondoh, 2003; McCann et al., 2005; Eveleigh et al., 2007).”