Front Cover; Ecological Research; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors to Volume 41; Preface; Chapter 1: Allometry of Body Size and Abundance in 166 Food Webs; Summary; I. Introduction; II. Theory; A. The Energetic Equivalence Hypothesis; B. The Energetic Equivalence Hypothesis with Trophic Transfer Correction; III. Methods; A. Testing Theory; B. Testing Linearity; C. Reasons for Nonlinearity and Alternative Models; D. General Methods; IV. Data; V. Results; A. Testing Theory; B. Testing Linearity; C. Reasons for Nonlinearity and Alternative Models; VI. Discussion
A. Slopes and Predictions of TheoryB. Examples of Ecological Errors from Unsupported Models; C. Discussion of Methods; D. Recommendations and Future Directions; Acknowledgments; Appendix I. How and Why Linearity Tests Differ from Those of Cohen and Carpenter; A. Testing the Assumption of Linearity of Conditional Expectation; B. Testing the Assumption of Homoskedasticity of Residuals; C. Testing the Assumption of Normality of Residuals; D. Testing the Assumption of Homoskedasticity of Absolute Residuals; Appendix II. Testing the Composite Test of Linearity
Appendix III. Symmetric Linear RegressionAppendix IV. Additional Results of Linearity Testing; Appendix V. Abundance and Diversity of Bacteria; Appendix VI. Limitations of the Data; References; Chapter 2: Human and Environmental Factors Influence Soil Faunal Abundance-Mass Allometry and Structure; Summary; I. Introduction; II. Soil Faunal Descriptors; A. Abundance-Mass Slope; B. Faunal Diversity and Total Biomass; C. Abundance-Mass Intercept and Expected Log Population Density of Smallest Taxa; III. Data; A. Data on Taxonomy, Average Body-Mass, and Population Density; B. Environmental Data
C. Human-Use DataD. Carbon Resource Data; IV. Methods; A. Classification of Variables; B. Stepwise Regression; C. Testing Assumptions of Linear Models; V. Results; A. Models of Soil Faunal Community Structure; B. Relative Importance of Variables; C. Interpreting Variation in Structure; D. Testing for Artifacts; VI. Discussion; A. Food Web Descriptors; B. Relative Importance of Variables; C. Limitations of This Study; D. Future Directions; Acknowledgments; Appendix I. Stepwise Regression; Appendix II. Testing Assumptions of Linear Models; Appendix III. Detailed Statistical Results
A. Abundance-Mass SlopeB. Log Faunal Biomass; C. Faunal Diversity; D. Abundance-Mass Intercept and Expected Log Population Density of Smallest Taxa; E. Log Faunal Population Density; References; Chapter 3: Modeling Individual Animal Histories with Multistate Capture-Recapture Models; Summary; I. Introduction; II. A Historical Account; III. Conditional Multistate Models as a Generalization of Survival Models; A. Multistate Models and Data: Meadow Vole Example; B. The Conditional Arnason-Schwarz (CAS) Model; C. The Jolly-Movement (JMV) Model