Aquatic Food Web Interactions: Microcosms as Lake Models

 

John C. Holz, Kyle D. Hoagland, and Anthony Joern

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2000, Volume 21

Abstract

A laboratory exercise for increasing knowledge of trophic cascades in aquatic ecosystems has led to a better understanding of several basic ecological tenets, including competition, predation, and a variety of other community-level food web interactions using microcosms from whole water plankton collections.

Keywords:  food web, aquatic

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (1999)