Power reading list for IB 250, Fall 2006
October 2: Food webs and interaction strength
Berlow, E. L., S. A. Navarrete, C. J. Briggs, M. E. Power, and B. A. Menge. 1999. Quantifying variation in the strengths of species interactions. Ecology 80:2206-2224.
*Carpenter, S. R., and J. F. Kitchell. 1988. Consumer control of lake productivity. BioScience 38:764-769.
Elser, J. J., W. F. Fagan, R. F. Denno, D. R. Dobberfuhl, A. Folarin, A. Huberty, S. Interlandi, S. S. Kilham, E. McCauley, K. L. Schulz, E. H. Siemann, and R. W. Sterner. 2000. Nutritional constraints in terrestrial and freshwater food webs. Nature 408:578-580.
Estes, J. A., N. S. Smith, and J. F. Palmisano. 1978. Sea otter predation and community organization in the Western Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Ecology 59:822-833.
*Estes, J. A., M. T. Tinker, T. M. Williams and D. F. D.F. Doak. 1998. Killer whale predation on sea otters linking oceanic and nearshore ecosystems. Science 282: 473-476.
*Fretwell, S. D. 1977. The regulation of plant communities by food chains exploiting them. Persp. Biol. and Medic. 20:169-185.
*Hairston, N. G., F. E. Smith, and L. B. Slobodkin. 1960. Community structure, population control, and competition. American Naturalist 94:421-425.
Oksanen, L., S. D. Fretwell, J. Arruda, and P. Niemela. 1981. Exploitation ecosystems in gradients of primary productivity. American Naturalist 118:240-261.
*Paine, R. T. 1969. A note on trophic complexity and community stability. American Naturalist 103:91-93.
*Paine, R. T. 1980. Food webs: linkage, interaction strength and community infrastructure. Journal of Animal Ecology 49:667-685.
*Paine, R. T. 1992. Food-Web Analysis through Field Measurement of Per-Capita Interaction Strength. Nature 355:73-75.
*Polis, G. A. 1991. Complex trophic interactions in deserts: an empirical critique of food web theory. American Naturalist 138:123-155.
*Power, M. E., D. Tilman, J. Estes, B. A. Menge, L. S. Mills, W. J. Bond, G. Daily, J. Lubchenco, J. C. Castilla, and R. T. Paine. 1996. Challenges in the quest for keystones. BioScience 46:609-628.
*Silliman, B. R., and M. D. Bertness. 2002. A trophic cascade regulates salt marsh primary production. PNAS 99:10500-10505.
*Wootton, J. T. 1994. Putting the pieces together: testing for the independence of interactions among organisms. Ecology 75:1544-1551.
October 9: Food webs and landscapes
*Ben-David, M., T. A. Hanley, and D. M. Schell. 1998. Fertilization of terrestrial vegetation by spawning Pacific salmon: The role of flooding and predator activity. Oikos 83:47-55.
*Croll, D. A., J. L. Maron, J. A. Estes, E. M. Danner, and G. V. Byrd. 2005. Introduced predators transform subarctic islands from grassland to tundra. Science 307:1959-1961.
*Duggins, D. O. 1987. The effects of kelp forests on nearshore environments: biomass, detritus, and altered flow. in G. R. van Blaricom and J. A. Estes, editors. The community ecology of sea otters. Springer-Verlag, N.Y.
*Nakano, S., and M. Murakami. 2001. Reciprocal subsidies: Dynamic interdependence between terrestrial and aquatic food webs. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98:166-170.
Polis, G. A., and S. D. Hurd. 1996. Linking marine and terrestrial food webs: Allochthonous input from the ocean supports high secondary productivity on small islands and coastal land communities. American Naturalist 147:396-423.
*Polis, G. A., W. B. Anderson, and R. D. Holt. 1997. Toward an integration of landscape and food web ecology: The dynamics of spatially subsidized food webs. Pages 289-316 in D. G. Fautin, editor. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Vol. 28. Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, California, USA.
*Power, M. E., and W. E. Rainey. 2000. Food webs and resource sheds: Towards spatially delimiting trophic interactions. Pages 291-314 in M. J. Hutchings, E.A. John, and A. J. A. Stewart, editors. Ecological Consequences of Habitat Heterogeneity. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, UK.
Power, M. E., W. E. Rainey, M. S. Parker, J. L. Sabo, A. Smyth, S. Khandwala, J. C. Finlay, F. C. McNeely, K. Marsee, and C. Anderson. 2004. River to watershed subsidies in an old-growth conifer forest. Pages 217-240 in G. A. Polis, M. E. Power, and G. Huxel, editors. Food webs and Landscapes. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago.
*Schell, D. M., S. M. Saupe, and N. Haubenstock. 1988. Natural isotope abundances in Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) Baleen: Markers of aging and habitat usage. Pages 260-269 in P. W. Rundel, J. R. Ehleringer, and K. A. Nagy, editors. Stable isotopes in ecological research. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
October 16: Food webs through time
*Carpenter, S. R., D. Ludwig, and W. A. Brock. 1999. Management of eutrophication for lakes subject to potentially irreversible change. Ecological Applications 9:751-771.
*Jackson, J. B. C., M. X. Kirby, W. H. Berger, K. Bjorndal, L. W. Botsford, B. J. Bourque, R. H. Bradbury, R. Cooke, J. Erlandson, J. A. Estes, T. P. Hughes, S. Kidwell, C. B. Lange, H. S. Lenihan, J. M. Pandolfi, C. H. Peterson, R. S. Stenceck, M. J. Tegner, and R. R. Warner. 2001. Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science 293:629-638.
Mazumder, A., W. D. Taylor, D. J. McQueen, and D. R. S. Lean. 1990. Effects of fish and plankton on lake temperature and mixing depth. Science 247:312-315.
Paine, R. T., M. J. Tegner, and E. A. Johnson. 1998. Compounded perturbations yield ecological surprises. Ecosystems 1:535-545.
Power, M. E. 1992. Hydrologic and trophic controls of seasonal algal blooms in northern California rivers. Archivs fur Hydrobiologie 125:385-410.
*Schmitz, O. J., E. Post, C. E. Burns, and K. M. Johnston. 2003. Ecosystem responses to global climate change: Moving beyond color mapping. BioScience 53:1199-1205.
Spiller, D. A., and A. A. Agrawal. 2003. Intense disturbance enhance plant susceptibility to herbivory: natural and experimental evidence. Ecology 84:890-897.
*Steinberg, P. D., J. A. Estes, and F. C. Winter. 1995. Evolutionary consequences of food chain length in kelp forest communities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 92:8145-8148.
*Wootton, J. T., M. S. Parker, and M. E. Power. 1996. Effects of disturbance on river food webs. Science 273:1558-1560.