Body size and trophic cascades in lakes

• Main Authors: Jones, J. Iwan, Jeppesen, Erik
• Other Authors: Hildrew, Alan G., Raffaelli, David G., Edmonds-Brown, Ronni
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2007
• Subjects: Ecology and Environment; Myers; Lynch; Hastings; Paine; McCann; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/5359/; http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511611223&cid=CBO9780511611223A015

Since its first appearance (Hairston, Smith & Slobodkin, 1960), the hypothesis that predation can structure communities has courted controversy (Shapiro, Lamarra & Lynch, 1975; Strong, 1992; McCann, Hastings & Strong, 1998). Nearly 50 years later there is still ongoing debate over the im...