Integrative Ecology: From Molecules to Ecosystems

This thematic volume represents an important and exciting benchmark in the study of integrative ecology, synthesizing and showcasing current research and highlighting future directions for the development of the field.

1. HUTCHINSON REVERSED - WHY THERE HAVE TO BE SO MANY SPECIES

Helmut Hillebrand, Robert Ptacnik, and Stefanie D. Moorthi

2. Using micrscopic organisms as model systems for testing general ecological theory

Julia Reiss, Fernanda Cássio, Jack Forster, Andrew Hirst, Cláudia Pascoal and Rebecca Stewart

3. Systems Biology for Ecology: From Molecules to Ecosystems

Paul Hurd, Guy Woodward, Mark Trimmer, Kevin Purdy

4. Assessing the contribution of micro-organisms and macrofauna to biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in freshwater microcosms

Julia Reiss; Rosemary A. Bailey, Guy Woodward, Fernanda Cássio and Cláudia Pascoal

5. Environmental warming and biodiversity-ecosystem functioning in freshwater microcosms: partitioning the effects of species identity, richness and metabolism

Daniel M. Perkins, Brendan G. McKie, Bjorn Malmqvist, Steven G. Gilmour, Julia Reiss and Guy Woodward

6. Individual-Based Food Webs: Species Identity, Body Size and Sampling Effects

Guy Woodward, Julia Blanchard, Rasmus B. Lauridsen, Francois K. Edwards, J. Iwan Jones, David Figueroa, Philip H. Warren and Owen l. Petchey

7. The Temperature Dependence of the Carbon Cycle in Aquatic Ecosystems

Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Andrew P. Allen, José M. Montoya, Mark Trimmer, and Guy Woodward