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Resolving ecosystem complexity
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1. Introduction
Philosophical musings
Explaining contingency: a worldview
Contingency and emergence
Preparing the mind for discovery
Structure of the book
2. Conceptualizing ecosystem structure
Abstracting complexity
Whole system vs. building blocks approach
Defining species interaction modules
Identifying interaction modules in a grassland ecosystem
Conception of ecosystem structure
3. Trophic dynamics: why is the world green?
Trophic control as an emergent property of resource limitation
Explaining contingency in trophic control of ecosystem function
The nature of resource limitation and trophic control of food chains
The mechanism switching hypothesis of trophic control
Effects of herbivore feeding mode
Collective effects of herbivore species with different feeding modes
Plant-antiherbivore defense and strength of trophic control
Herbivore resource selection and ecosystem function
Stoichiometry and herbivore resource use
Resource selection and ecosystem function
Herbivore indirect effects and engineering of green worlds
Herbivore-mediated carnivore indirect effects on ecosystems
Carnivore indirect effects on plant diversity
Carnivore indirect effects on ecosystem function
4. The green world and the brown chain
Conceptualizing functions along detritus-based chains
Resource limitation and trophic control
Trophic control of decomposition
Trophic control of mineralization
Mechanisms of top-down control
Trophic coupling between detritus-based and plant-based chains
5. The evolutionary ecology of trophic control in ecosystems
Carnivore species and the nature of trophic interactions in an old-field system
Carnivore hunting mode and the nature of trophic interactions
The evolutionary ecology of trophic cascades
6. The whole and the parts
Developing predictive theory for emergence
Contingency and carnivore diversity effects on ecosystems
Carnivore diversity and emergent effects on ecosystem function
Shifting down one trophic level: intermediate species diversity and ecosystem function
Herbivore diversity and mediation of top-down control of ecosystem function
Detritivore diversity and mediation of top-down control of ecosystem function
The basal trophic level: plant diversity and ecosystem function
Functional classifications
Resource identity effects on trophic interactions
Moving forward on functional diversity and ecosystem function
7. The ecological theater and the evolutionary ecological play
Phenotypic variation and state-dependent trade-offs
Attacked plants attract predators
Predators that avoid predation
The nonconsumptive basis of trophic transfer efficiencies
Trophic interactions in a changing theater
Rapid change in hunting strategy
Landscapes of fear and ecosystem management.
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