New Directions in Food Web Analysis 1

Session 13 (Special)
Tuesday, June 8, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM, IRC2
Moderator: S. Larned

8:00 (85) Stoichiometric interactions in the Kuparuk River food web.
J.P. Benstead¹, L.A. Deegan¹, A.D. Huryn², A.C. Green¹, and B.J. Peterson¹. ¹The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA, ²Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA

8:15 (86) Stable hydrogen isotopes in freshwater fisheries research.
R.R. Doucett¹, J.P. Shannon¹, M.F. Caron², G.A. Haden¹, and B.A. Hungate¹. ¹Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86001, ²Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86001

8:30 (87) Stable isotope analysis of current and historical aquatic food webs .
M.S. Edwards and T.F. Turner. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131

8:45 (88) Inverse analyses for predicting carbon and nitrogen flows in aquatic food webs: strengths and weaknesses.
P.M. Eldridge¹ and S.T. Larned². ¹Western Ecology Division, US Environmental Protection Agency, Newport, Oregon, USA 97365, ²River Ecosystem Group, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Christchurch, New Zealand

9:00 (89) What can stable isotope analysis reveal about the complexity of food web structures at different spatial scales?
K.H. Gaines. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131

9:15 (90) Carbon and nitrogen flows through a tropical stream food web inferred by inverse analysis .
S.T. Larned¹, P.M. Eldridge², and R.A.III Kinzie³. ¹National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Christchurch, New Zealand, ²Pacific Coastal Ecology Branch, Western Ecology Division, U.S. EPA, Newport, Oregon, 97365, ³Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822