Body size: the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems

Abstract

1. The metabolic theory of ecology and the role of body size in marine and freshwater ecosystems James H. Brown, Andrew P. Allen and James F. Gillooly 2. Body size and suspension feeding Stuart Humphries 3. Life histories and body size David Atkinson and Andrew G. Hirst 4. Relationship between biomass turnover and body size for stream communities Alexander D. Huryn and Arthur C. Benke 5. Body size in streams: macroinvertebrate community size composition along natural and human-induced environmental gradients Colin R. Townsend and Ross M. Thompson 6. Body size and predatory interactions in fresh waters: scaling from individuals to communities Guy Woodward and Philip Warren 7. Body size and trophic cascades in lakes J. Iwan Jones and Erik Jeppesen 8. Body-size and scale-invariance: multifractals in invertebrate communities Peter E. Schmid and Jenny M. Schmid-Araya 9. Body size and biogeography B. J. Finlay and G. F. Esteban 10. By wind, wings or water: body size, dispersal and range size in aquatic invertebrates Simon D. Rundle, David T. Bilton and Andrew Foggo 11. Body size and diversity in marine systems Richard M. Warwick 12. Interplay between individual growth and population feed backs shapes body size distributions Lennart Persson and Andre M. De Roos 13. The consequences of body-size in model microbial ecosystems Owen L. Petchey, Zachary T. Long and Peter J. Morin 14. Body size, exploitation and conservation of marine organisms Simon Jennings and John D. Reynolds 15. How body size mediates the role of animals in nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems Robert O. Hall, Jr., Benjamin J. Koch, Michael C. Marshall, Brad W. Taylor and Lusha M. Tronstad 16. Body sizes in food chains of animal predators and parasites Joel E. Cohen 17. Body size in aquatic ecology: important, but not the whole story Alan G. Hildrew, David G. Raffaelli and Ronni Edmonds-Brown.