Predation and food web structure along a habitat duration gradient

Oecologia

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 567-575

  Schneider, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectance; Food webs; Habitat variability; Predation; Temporary ponds

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; HABITAT DURATION; PREDATION; TEMPORARY POND;

EID: 0030613824     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050197     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Arts MT, Maly EJ, Pasitschniak M (1981) The influence of Acilius (Dytiscidae) predation on Daphnia in a small pond. Limnol Oceanogr 26:1172-1175
2. Baker RL, Clifford JF (1981) Life cycles and food of Coenagrion resolutum (Coenagrionidae: Odonata) and Lestes disjunclus disjunclus (Lestidae: Odonata) populations from the boreal forest of Alberta, Canada. Aquat Insects 3:179-191
3. Balduf WV (1935) The bionomics of entomophagous Coleoptera. Classey, Hampden
4. Beaver RA (1985) Geographical variation in the food wed structure of Nepenthes pitchers. Ecol Ent 10:241-248
5. Bengsston J (1994) Confounding variables and independent observations in comparative analyses of food webs. Ecology 75:1282-1288
6. Brandl Z, Fernando CH (1978) Prey selection by the cyclopoid copepods Mesocyclops edax and Cyclops vicinus. Verh Internat Verein Limnol 20:2505-2510
7. Briand F (1983) Environmental control of food web structure. Ecology 64:253-263
8. Caldwell JP, Thorp JH, Jervey TO (1980) Predator-prey relationships among larval dragonflies, salamanders, and frogs. Oecologia 46:285-289
9. Cloarec A (1975) Variations quantitatives de la prise alimentairechez Ranatra linearis L (Heteroptere Aquatique, carnivore). Ann Nutr Aliment 29:245-257
10. Closs GP, Lake PS (1994) Spatial and temporal variation in the structure of an intermittent-stream food web. Ecol Monogr 64:1-2
11. Cohen JE (1989) Food webs and community structure. In: Roughgarden J, May RM, Levin SA (eds) Perspectives in ecology theory. Princeton University Press, Princeton, pp 181-202
12. Cullen MJ (1969) The biology of giant water bugs (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) in Trinidad. Proc R Entomol Soc Lond A 44:123-136
13. Davies RW, Wrona FJ, Linton L (1982) Changes in numerical dominance and its effects on prey; utilization and inter-specific competition between Erpobdella punctata and Nephelopsis obscura (Hirudinoidea): an assessment. Oikos 39:92-99
14. Dodson SI, Dodson VE (1971) Diet of Ambysloma tigrinum larvae. Copeia 1971-614-624
15. Ellis RA, Borden JH (1970) Predation by Notonecta undulata (Heteroptera: Notonectidae) on larvae of the yellow-fever mosquito. Ann Entomol Soc Am 63:963-973
16. Giguere LA (1979) An experimental test of Dodson's hypothesis that Ambystma (a salamander) and Chaoborus (a phantom midge) have complementary feeding niches. Can J Zool 57:1091-1097
17. Hall SJ, Raffaelli DG (in press) Food web patterns: what do we really know? In: Press M (ed) Multitrophic Interactions. Blackwell, Oxford
18. Havens K (1992) Scale and structure in natural food webs. Science 257:1107-1109
19. Havens KE (1994) Experimental perturbation of a freshwater plankton community: a test of hypotheses regarding the effects of stress. Oikos 69:147-153
20. Helgen JC (1989) Larval mosquitoes as vulnerable prey Chaoborus predation. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 46:1642-1650
21. Hungerford HB (1917) The biology and ecology of aquatic and semiaquatic hemiptera. Univ Kans Sci Bull 11:3-341
22. James HG (1957) Mochlonyx velutinus (Rutte) (Diptera: Culicidae), an occasional predator of mosquito larvae. Can Entomol 89:470-480
23. James HG (1961) Some predators of Aedes Stimulans (Walker) and Aedes trichurus (Dyar) (Diptera: Culicidae) in woodland pools. Can J Zool 39:533-540
24. James HG (1966) Insect predators of univoltine mosquitoes in woodland pools of the pre-Cambrian shield in Ontario. Can Entomol 98:550-555
25. Jenkins B, Kitching RL, Pimm SL (1992) Productivity, disturbance and food web structure at a local spatial scale in experimental container habitats. Oikos 65:249-255
26. Leech HB, Chandler HP (1956) Aquatic Coleoptera. In: Usinger RL (ed) Aquatic insects of California. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp 293-371
27. Li JL, Li HW (1979) Species specific factors affecting predator-prey interactions of the copepod Acanlhocyclops vernalis with its natural prey. Limnol Oceanogr 24:613-626
28. Locke A, Sprules WG (1994) Effects of lake acidification and recovery on the stability of zooplankton food webs. Ecology 75:498-506
29. Martinez ND (1991) Artifacts or attributes? Effects of resolution on the Little Rock Lake food web. Ecol Monogr 61:367-392
30. Martinez ND (1992) Constant connectance in community food webs. Am Nat 139:1208-1218
31. May RM (1972) Will a large couple system be stable? Nature 238: 413-414
32. Menke AE (ed) (1979) The semiaquatic and aquatic Hemiptera of California (Heteroptera: Hemiptera). Bull Calif Insect Surv 21:1-166
33. Merritt RW, Cummins KW (eds) (1984) An introduction to the aquatic insects of North America. Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa
34. Nummelin M (1989) Cannibalism in waterstriders (Heteroptera: Gerridae): is there kin recognition? Oikos 56:87-90
35. Paine RT (1980) Food webs: linkage, interaction strength and community infrastructure. J Anim Ecol 49:667-685
36. Paine RT (1988) Food webs: road maps of interactions or grist for theoretical development? Ecology 69:1648-1654
37. Paine RT (1992) Food-web analysis through field measurement of per capita interaction strength. Nature 356:73-74
38. Parma S (1971) Chaoborus flavicans (Meigen) (Diptera, Chaoboridae): an autecological study. PhD dissertation, Groningen, Netherlands
39. Polis GA (1991) Complex trophic interactions in deserts: an empirical critique of food-web theory. Am Nat 138:123-155
40. Pritchard G (1964) The prey of dragonfly larvae (Odonata: Anisoptera) in ponds in northern Alberta. Can J Zool 42:785-800
41. Raney EC, Lachner E A (1942) Summer food of Chrysemis picta marginala, in Chatauqua Lake, New York. Copeia 1942:83-85
42. Rankin KP (1935) Life history of Lelhocerm americanus Leidey (Belostomatidae, Hemiptera). Univ Kans Sei Bull 22:479-491
43. SAS Institute (1994) Microsoft Windows environment: changes and enhancements to the SAS System Release 6.10. SAS Institute, Cary
44. Schneider DW, Frost TM (1996) Habitat duration and the community ecology of temporary ponds. J N Am Benthol S 15:64-86
45. Sephton TW (1987) Some observations on the food of larvae of Procladius bellus (Diptera: Chironomidae). Aquat Insects 9:195-202
46. Sprules WG, Bowerman JE (1988) Omnivory and food chain length in zooplankton food webs. Ecology 69:418-426
47. Vinyard GL, Menger RA (1980) Chaoborus americanus predation on various zooplankters; functional response and behavioral observations. Oecologia 45:90-93
48. Warren PH (1990) Variation in food-web structure: the determinants of connectance. Am Nat 136:689-700
49. Warren PH (1994) Making connections in food webs. Trends Ecol Evol 9:136-141
50. Warren PH (1995) Estimating morphologically determined connectance and structure for food webs of freshwater invertebrates. Freshwater Biol 33:213-221
51. Winemiller KO (1989) Must connectance decrease with species richness? Am Nat 134:960-968
52. Winterbourn MJ (1971) An ecological study of Banksiola crolchi Banks (Trichoptera, Phryganeidae) in Marion Lake, British Columbia. Can J Zool 49:637-645
53. Zalom FG, Grigarick AA (1980) Predation by Hydrophilus triangularis and Tropislernus lateralis in California rice fields. Ann Entomol Soc Am 73:167-171