Title Between hazards of starvation and risk of predation : the ecology of offshore animals / Z. Maciej Gliwicz ; introduction (Otto Kinne) ; Z. Maciej Gliwicz: a laudatio (Winifried Lampert)

Published Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany : International Ecology Institute, 2003

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Description xxvii, 379 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm Series Excellence in ecology, 0932-2205 ; 12 Excellence in ecology ; 12 Contents Machine derived contents note: S HABITAT AND LIFE OFFSHORE 7 -- 1. The Complexity of 'the World's Simplest Ecosystem': -- the Great Salt Lake, Utah 8 -- 2. Compromise as a Way of Life 11 -- 3. Offshore and Elsewhere 13 -- 4. The Specificity of Habitats Offshore 14 -- 5. An Offshore Animal 18 -- 6. The Structure of the Book 21 -- II THE ENDLESS SEARCH FOR COMPROMISES: -- AN INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL'S PERSPECTIVE 25 -- 1. Tradeoffs in Life Histories and Behavior 25 -- 2. Plankton: Life Along a Linear Dimension 34 -- 3. Fishes: Preying Under the Risk of Predation 50 -- 4. Heterogeneity of the Homogeneous Habitat 68 -- III TWO CONTRADICTORY APPROACHES TO ZOOPLANKTON -- POPULATION ECOLOGY 77 -- 1. Two Examples of Different Perspectives 77 -- 2. The Controversy of the Past and the Conciliation of the Present 84 -- 3. Between Size-Selective Predation and Size-Selective -- Food Limitation 88 -- 4. Food Limitation and Predation vs. Reproduction and Mortality 92 -- 5. Resource-Limited and Time-Limited Populations 99 -- IV SPECIES COEXISTENCE: IS 'THE PARADOX OF THE PLANKTON' -- A PARADOX? 103 -- 1. Peaceful Coexistence or Diversity Promoted by Predation? 104 -- 2. Coexistence by Feeding on Different Resources 107 -- 3. Coexistence by Differing in Vulnerability to Particles and -- Toxic Phytoplankton 117 -- 4. Coexistence by Different Food Quality Requirements 125 -- 5. Coexistence by Superiority in Competition for one of Several -- Resources: Tilman's Resource Ratio Hypothesis Applied -- to Zooplankton 127 -- 6. Resource Partitioning by Different Uses of Space and Time 131 -- 7. Non-Equilibrium Explanations for Species Coexistence 136 -- 8. Avoiding Risks: Non-Lethal Effects of Predation 142 -- 9. Disparity Between Competition and Predation Explanations 147 -- V SPECIES COEXISTENCE: PREDATION AND THE CARRYING -- CAPACITY OF THE HABITAT 151 -- 1. From the Gausean Paramecium aurelia to the Daphnia pulicaria -- of Smyslov Pond 151 -- 2. The Spring Clear Water Phase in Temperate Lakes and Daphnia -- Summer Declines 164 -- 3. Species-Specific Thresholds of Population Density 168 -- 4. Switching Behavior in Foraging Fishes 174 -- 5. Predation and Carrying Capacity: The Different Perspectives -- of Small- and Large-Bodied Prey 184 -- 6. Refuges in Space, in Time, and into Invisibility 187 -- VI HABITATS WITHOUT FISHES: A GAUSEAN WORLD OF -- COMPETITIVE EXCLUSIONS 191 -- 1. Daphnia pulicaria in an Alpine Lake in the Tatra Mountains, -- Poland 191 -- 2. Artemiafranciscana in the Great Salt Lake, Utah 202 -- 3. The Past and Present of Fish-Free Habitats 211 -- 4. Productivity Potential, the Number of Trophic Levels, and -- Population Density Oscillations 224 -- 5. Complexity of Cyclops-Daphnia Interactions 232 -- 6. Scents and 'Tastes' of Predation Risk 237 -- 7. Rotifers in Fish-Free Habitats 240 -- 8. Limnology, and the Limnology of Fish-Free Habitats 243 -- VII WATER QUALITY VS. FISHERY MANAGEMENT: 'BOTTOM-UP' -- AND 'TOP-DOWN' VS. RATES AND ABUNDANCE 247 -- 1. From Production to Conservation via 'Biomanipulation' -- and 'Trophic Cascades' 248 -- 2. Manipulating Fish Densities vs. Mitigating Fish -- Feeding Behavior 253 -- 3. Inefficiency of Piscivores and Efficiency of their Prey 261 -- 4. Planktivory and Prey Responses: Resistance and Resilience -- of Zooplankton to Fish Predation 265 -- 5. Inefficiency of Herbivore Control: Reluctance of Efficient -- Herbivores to Feed Where and When Phytoplankton Grows 268 -- 6. Fragility of Herbivore Control: Community, Population and -- Individual Responses of Algae 272 -- VIII DISPARITY BETWEEN 'TOP-DOWN' AND 'BOTTOM-UP' -- APPROACHES 279 -- 1. The Different Nature of 'Top-Down' and 'Bottom-Up' Impacts 279 -- 2. The Ecosystem Perspective-Energy Transfers and -- Trophic Cascades 284 -- 3. Disparity Between Predation and Starvation- -- an Individual's Prospects 285 -- 4. Disparity Between Mortality And Reproduction- -- a Population's Perspective 287 -- 5. Ecology of Predation and Ecological Efficiency of Animals 293 -- IX OFFSHORE SOURCES OF ECOLOGY: SPECIFICITY AND -- GENERALITY OF LIFE PATTERNS 297 -- 1. Inceptions of Hutchinson's Ecology 297 -- 2. The Threshold Food Concentration 304 -- 3. Bottom-Up and Top-Down Drivers of Periodicity 309 -- 4. Herbivore and Predator Perspectives of Starvation 318 -- 5. Single-Factor Explanations and the Reality of Life 324 -- 6. The Pace of Life: Trading Off Resources for Time 330 -- X TAILPIECE: BACK TO UTAH 333 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-373) and index Subject Gliwicz, Z. Maciej, 1939- Aquatic animals -- Ecology. Aquatic ecology. Fishes -- Habitat. Marine animals -- Food. Predatory marine animals. Author Lampert, Winifried. Z. Maciej Gliwicz: a laudatio LC no. 2006483738

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