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Virtual Issue: Adaptive Foraging and Food Webs

Edited by Andrew Beckerman & Owen Petchey
JANUARY 2010

Optimal foraging theory was originally developed as a tool to explore how to link animal and plant behaviour to the population dynamics and distribution of species, and the ecology of natural communities. Read the full introduction ...

Phenotypic plasticity, intraguild predation and anti-cannibal defences in an enigmatic polymorphic ciliate
A. Banerji, Peter J. Morin

Predator-prey instability: Individual-level mechanisms for population-level results
B. E. Beisner, E. McCauley, F. J. Wrona

Effects of elevated temperature on multi-species interactions: the case of Pedunculate Oak, Winter Moth and Tits
A. Buse, S. J. Dury, R. J. W. Woodburn, C. M. Perrins, J. E. G. Good

Body size predicts degree in ant-plant mutualistic networks
S. A. Chamberlain, J. N. Holland

Factors affecting the expression of inducible defences in Euplotes: genotype, predator density and experience
S. L. Duquette, R. Altwegg, B. R. Anholt

Optimal diet choice for large herbivores: an extended contingency model
K. D. Farnsworth, A. W. Illius

Linking the foraging performance of a marine predator to local prey abundance
D. Grémillet, G. Kuntz, F. Delbart, M. Mellet, A. Kato, J.-P. Robin, P.-E. Chaillon, J.-P. Gendner, S.-H. Lorentsen, Y. Le Maho

Linking above- and below-ground biodiversity: abundance and trophic complexity in soil as a response to experimental plant communities on abandoned arable land
G. W. Korthals, P. Smilauer, C. Van Dijk, W. H. Van Der Putten

Indirect effects of food web diversity and productivity on bacterial community function and composition
J. A. Krumins, Z. T. Long, C. F. Steiner, P. J. Morin

Optimal diet selection by a generalist grazing herbivore
J. A. Newman, A. J. Parsons, J. H. M. Thornley, P. D. Penning, J. R. Krebs

Interactive effects of warming and species loss on model Antarctic microbial food webs
K. K. Newsham, T. Garstecki

Dietary routing of nutrients from prey to offspring in a generalist predator: effects of prey quality
S. Rickers, R. Langel, S. Scheu

Advances in molecular ecology: tracking trophic links through predator-prey food-webs
S. K. Sheppard, J. D. Harwood

Size-dependent predation by Dugesia-lugubris (Turbellaria) on Physa-acuta (Gastropoda) - experiments and model
F. Tripet, N. Perrin

Plant defence against nematodes is not mediated by changes in the soil microbial community
S. Wurst, S. van Beersum, R. Wagenaar, T. Bakx-Schotman, B. Drigo, I. Janzik, A. Lanoue, W. H. van der Putten