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Toward an Integration of Landscape and Food Web Ecology: The Dynamics of Spatially Subsidized Food Webs

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Polis, Gary A., Anderson, Wendy B., Holt, Robert D.·1997·Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

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We focus on the implications of movement, landscape variables, and spatial heterogeneity for food web dynamics. Movements of nutrients, detritus, prey, and consumers among habitats are ubiquitous in diverse biomes and can strongly influence population, consumer-resource, food web, and community dynamics. Nutrient and detrital subsidies usually increase primary and secondary productivity, both directly and indirectly. Prey subsidies, by movement of either prey or predators, usually enhance predator abundance beyond what local resources can support. Top-down effects occur when spatially subsidized consumers affect local resources by suppressing key resources and occasionally by initiating trophic cascades. Effects on community dynamics vary with the relative amount of input, the trophic roles of the mobile and recipient entities, and the local food web structure. Landscape variables such as the perimeter/area ratio of the focal habitat, permeability of habitat boundaries, and relative productivity of trophically connected habitats affect the degree and importance of spatial subsidization.

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Authors
Polis, G. A., Anderson, W. B., & Holt, R. D.
Venue
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
Published
1997-11
Volume
28
Issue
1
Pages
289-316
ISSN
0066-4162 (ISSN-L)
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W2097607146
Cited by
2,362
References
9
FWCI
17.12
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journal article
Language
en
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Polis, G. A., Anderson, W. B., & Holt, R. D. (1997). Toward an Integration of Landscape and Food Web Ecology: The Dynamics of Spatially Subsidized Food Webs. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.28.1.289

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