Article: Microcosm experiments have limited relevance for community and ecosystem ecology.(Special Feature: The Roles of Microcosm in Ecological Research)

Article: Microcosm experiments have limited relevance for ...
Ecology;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Carpenter (1996) suggested that microcosm experiments are disconnected from natural lake ... Carpenter's comments misrepresent microcosm experiments and their contributions to aquatic ... alternative view of the role of microcosm experiments for both research and graduate ...

Article: Microcosm experiments have limited relevance for ...
Ecology;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... models, one would expect brief microcosm experiments to yield contradictory results ... Carpenter and Kitchell 1993). Other microcosm experiments fail to predict ecosystem responses ... It is likely that unsuccessful microcosm experiments are under-represented in the ...

Article: Population dynamics of light-limited phytoplankton: ...
Ecology;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... critical light intensity should be independent of mixing depth. Here I report on tests of these predictions using microcosm experiments with the green alga Chlorella vulgaris. THEORY Consider a well-mixed water column. Let [Omega] denote ...

Article: Microcosm experiments have limited relevance for ...
Ecology;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...There is general agreement that experiments are an essential tool in ecology, as in all sciences. However, there is much less agreement on the types and designs of experiments that are most useful for predicting the impacts of (and the solutions to) the complex, large-scale environmental problems

Article: Alterations of Hawaiian Stream Habitat and Their Effects on ...
Pacific Science;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Charles Chong [4] Two different types of studies conducted by the University of Hawai'i Zoology Department have addressed the question of how artificial alterations of stream habitat may affect invertebrate faunas in Hawai'i. In the first study, samples of benthic invertebrates were collected from

Article: Bottle or big-scale studies: how do we do ecology?(Special ...
Ecology;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... articles in this Special Feature address the ... influence of microcosm experiments within one arbitrarily ... How common are microcosm experiments in the published ... literature? (2) Do microcosm experiments differ from ...

Article: Soil microcosms and the population biology of nematophagus ...
Ecology;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... host and parasite population densities is difficult in the field. EXPERIMENTS AND THEORY Microcosm experiments We turned to microcosm experiments, theory, and field-perturbation experiments to assist in understanding processes. Microcosms ...