The Trophic Cascade in Lakes (Paperback)

1. Cascading trophic interactions; 2. Experimental lakes, manipulations and measurements; 3. Statistical analysis of the ecosystem experiments; 4. The fish populations; 5. Fish behavioral and community responses to manipulation; 6. Roles of fish predation: piscivory and planktivory; 7. Dynamics of the phantom midge: implications for zooplankton; 8. Zooplankton community dynamics; 9. Effects of predators and food supply and diel vertical migration of Daphnia; 10. Zooplankton biomass and body size; 11. Phytoplankton community dynamics; 12. Metalimnetic phytoplankton; 13. Primary production and its interactions with nutrients and light transmission; 14. Heterotrophic microbial processes; 15. Annual fossil record of food-web manipulation; 16. Simulation models of the trophic cascade: predictions and evaluations; 17. Synthesis and new directions; Index.