From Energetics to Ecosystems

SECTION I.- A Process-Oriented Approach to the Multispecies Functional Response.- Homage to Yodzis and Innes 1992: Scaling up Feeding-Based Population Dynamics to Complex Ecological Networks.- Food Webs, Body Size and the Curse of the Latin Binomial.- An Energetic Framework for Trophic Control.- SECTION II.- Experimental Studies of Food Webs: Causes and Consequences of Trophic Interactions.- Interplay Between Scale, Resolution, Life History and Food Web Properties.- Heteroclinic Cycles in the Rain Forest: Insights from Complex Dynamics.- Emergence in Ecological Systems.- Dynamic Signatures of Real and Model Ecosystems.- SECTION III.- Evolutionary Branching of Single Traits.- Feedback Effects Between the Food Chain and Induced Defense Strategies.- Evolutionary Demography: The Invasion Exponent and the Effective Population Density in Nonlinear Matrix Models.- Of Experimentalists, Empiricists, and Theoreticians.