The Trophic Cascade in Lakes (Hardcover)

Fluctuations in fish populations in lakes can cascade through food webs to alter nutrient cycling, algal biomass and primary production. Trophic cascades may interact with nutrients and physical factors to explain most of the variance in lake ecosystem process rates. In this 1993 book, a multidisciplinary research team tests this idea by manipulating whole lakes experimentally, and coordinating this with palaeolimnological studies, simulation modelling, and small-scale enclosure experiments. Consequences of predator-prey interactions, behavioural responses of fishes, diel vertical migration of zooplankton, plankton community change, primary production, nutrient cycling and microbial processes are described. Palaeolimnological techniques enable the reconstruction of trophic interactions from past decades. Prospects for analysing the interaction of food web structure and nutrient input in lakes are explored.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Ecology
Release date:	August 1993
First published:	1993
Editors:	Stephen R. Carpenter • James F. Kitchell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-43145-3
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
LSN:	0-521-43145-X
Barcode:	9780521431453

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