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: 473476.
*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 307:19591961.
*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 289316 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.