Body Size: The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems

By R. Briers. 2009

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Ecological Stoichiometry as an Integrative Framework in Stream Fish Ecology (2010, background): “Hall et al. (2007) reviewed the available data from 30 fish species and concluded that positive or negative allometric scaling was evident in some individual species but that crossspecies patterns indicate direct proportionality of excretion rates of N and P with size.”
Relationships between structure and function in streams contrasting in temperature (2009, background): “Further, there are virtually no empirical data to assess how increased temperatures might alter ecosystem functioning, despite theoretical predictions of changes in the magnitude of energy fluxes, network topology and altered body-size distributions within the food web (Woodward & Warren, 2007).”
The understudied and underappreciated role of predation in the mortality of fish released from fishing gears (2014, background): “In making decisions about which prey to target, predators must consider the relative costs of pursuit, capture, ingestion and digestion (collectively known as handling time; Godin 1997; Woodward and Warren 2007).”
Trophic level scales positively with body size in fishes (2011, background): “It is likely that some combination of lower relative metabolic rates for large predators, decreases in trophic transfer efficiency toward the top of the food web, a higher sequestration of energy for maintenance in larger predators and less frequent encounters with prey based on smaller population s”