Index
Note: Page references in italics indicate figures.| Akaike information criterion, 71 | |
| Allen, T.F.H., 257 | |
| animal energy budgets, 10–14 | |
| aquatic food webs, 159–60, 160 | |
| Arditi, R., 109, 112 | |
| Ashby, W. R., 124–25 | |
| assembly rules for webs with plant/ specialist herbivores, 93–98, 94, 94n, 96, 121–22 |
| Bagdhi, R., 71 | |
| balance of nature, 124 | |
| basal metabolism, 10–12 | |
| Bayesian probability theory, 257 | |
| Berendse, F., 71–72, 72 | |
| between-cycle competition, 236–38 | |
| Bigger, D., 132–35, 139, 141 | |
| biochemical constraints on systems, x–xi | |
| BIODEPTH experiment, 58–59, 59, 70, 70–71, 75 | |
| biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, 56–78; additive partition of biodiversity effects, 68–73, 70, 204; biodiversity as stabilizing (see stability/complexity of ecosystems); biodiversity vs. species diversity, 56; in food webs, 80, 97–107, 98n, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107; in food webs, and nontrophic interactions, 80–81, 107–14, 108, 110, 113; horizontal diversity’s effects on (see horizontal diversity); human destruction of biodiversity, 92, 260–61; identifying mechanisms in experiments in, 68–73, 70, 72; overview of, x, xii–xiii, 56–57, 78; productivity vs. biodiversity, 73, 73–75, 76–77, 78, 80– 81; small-scale effects, 57–68, 59, 62–63, 67; small-scale experiments vs. largescale comparative studies, 73, 73–74, 76–77, 78; spatial dynamics of (see metacommunities/metaecosystems) | |
| blast disease, 106–7 | |
| Bolker, B. M., 43 | |
| Bond, E. M., 214 | |
| Bristow, C. E., 134–35 |
| Cadotte, M. W., 205 | |
| Caldarelli, G., 245 | |
| Cardinale, B. J.: on biodiversity experiments, 71; on complementarity, 73; on grazer effects on algae, 106, 107; on nonadditive predator–prey interactions, 104, 105; on species loss, 60–61, 62 | |
| carrying capacity, 17. See also equilibrium primary production | |
| Casula, P., 104 | |
| Cedar Creek biodiversity experiment, 58, 59, 128, 129 | |
| Chase, J. M., 214 | |
| chemical pollution, 260 | |
| Chesson, P., 39–40, 49, 51 | |
| Choi, J. S., 253 | |
| climate change, 260 | |
| closed systems, 169. See also material cycling and overall functioning of ecosystems | |
| Collins, J. P., 73 | |
| community ecology, ix–xi, 262, 266. See also food/interaction webs/food chains; metacommunities/metaecosystems; niche theory; species diversity’s functional consequences | |
| community evolution models, 245, 252–53 | |
| compartmental models, 6–9, 8, 15, 18 | |
| compensatory dynamics, 153–54 | |
| competition theory: between-cycle competition, 236–38; competition–colonization trade-offs, 40–43, 190; competitive ability as resource-use intensity, 174, 235; competitive exclusion principle, 22–23, 33–34, 53–55; nonequilibrium coexistence in |
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Book title: From Populations to Ecosystems: Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecological Synthesis.
Contributors: Michel Loreau - Author.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2010.
Page number: 291.
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