CHAPTER 5

 

TROPHIC STATUS, FOOD AVAILABILITY AND FEEDING BY AQUATIC ANIMALS

 

Amounts of living and dead organic matter in water

Changes in trophic status in space and time

Models of trophic dynamics

Catastrophic effects on trophic structure

Another look at trophic pathways

Fixing light or chemical energy

Methods of acquiring food in multicellular organisms

Combining feeding strategies in space and time

Processing of food by aquatic organisms