Trophic Control of Community Properties
Theoretical Ecology: BIOL765
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208
November 24, 1996
Readings:
Power, M. E. 1992. Top-down and bottom-up forces in food webs:
do plants have primacy? Ecology 73: 733-746.
Case, T. J. 1995. Surprising behavior from a familiar model and
implications for competition theory. American Naturalist
146: 961-966.
Maple worksheet for Case 1995
Law, R. & R. D. Morton. 1996. Permanence and the assembly of
ecological communities. Ecology 77: 762-775.