The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems, Nida, Lithuania, 4-9 October 2003 - Dame, Richard F.; Olenin, Sergej; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005)
Modelling Particle Selection Efficiency of Bivalve Suspension Feeders -- Field Measurements on the Variability in Biodeposition and Estimates of Grazing Pressure of Suspension-Feeding Bivalves in the Northern Baltic Sea -- Can Bivalve Suspension-Feeders Affect Pelagic Food Web Structure? -- Motile Suspension-Feeders in Estuarine and Marine Ecosystems -- Impact of Suspension-Feeding Nekton in Freshwater Ecosystems: Patterns and Mechanisms -- Influence of Eastern Oysters on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Regeneration in Chesapeake Bay, USA -- How does Estimation of Environmental Carrying Capacity for Bivalve Culture Depend upon Spatial and Temporal Scales? -- Impact of Increased Mineral Particle Concentration on the Behavior, Suspension-Feeding and Reproduction of Acartia clausi (Copepoda) -- Suspension-Feeders as Factors Influencing Water Quality in Aquatic Ecosystems -- Neoplasia in Estuarine Bivalves: Effect of Feeding Behaviour and Pollution in the Gulf of Gdansk (Baltic Sea, Poland) -- Bivalves as Biofilters and Valuable Byproducts in Land-Based Aquaculture Systems -- Significance of Suspension-Feeder Systems on Different Spatial Scales -- Invaders in Suspension-Feeder Systems: Variations along the Regional Environmental Gradient and Similarities between Large Basins -- Contrasting Distribution and Impacts of Two Freshwater Exotic Suspension Feeders, Dreissena polymorpha and Corbicula fluminea -- Functional Changes in Benthic Freshwater Communities after Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas) Invasion and Consequences for Filtration -- Does the Introduction of the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas Lead to Species Shifts in the Wadden Sea? -- One Estuary, One Invasion, Two Responses: Phytoplankton and Benthic Community Dynamics Determine the Effect of an Estuarine Invasive Suspension-Feeder -- Development of Human Impact on Suspension-Feeding Bivalves in Coastal Soft-Bottom Ecosystems -- Oyster Reefs as Complex Ecological Systems -- The Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems: Synthesis and Conclusions.
Keywords: Ecosystems; Ecology .; Biodiversity; Ecosystems; Ecology; Biodiversity