Includes bibliographical references and index.

The metabolic theory of ecology and the role of body size in marine and freshwater ecosystems / James H. Brown, Andrew P. Allen and James F. Gillooly -- Body size and suspension feeding / Stuart Humphries -- Life histories and body size / David Atkinson and Andrew G. Hirst -- Relationship between biomass turnover and body size for stream communities / Alexander D. Huryn and Arthur C. Benke -- Body size in streams : macroinvertebrate community size composition along natural and human-induced environmental gradients / Colin R. Townsend and Ross M. Thompson -- Body size and predatory interactions in fresh waters : scaling from individuals to communities / Guy Woodward and Philip Warren -- Body size and trophic cascades in lakes / J. Iwan Jones and Erik Jeppesen -- Body size and scale invariance : multifractals in invertebrate communities / Peter E. Schmid and Jenny M. Schmid-Araya -- Body size and biogeography / B.J. Finlay and G.F. Esteban -- By wind, wings or water : body size, dispersal and range size in aquatic invertebrates / Simon D. Rundle, David T. Bilton and Andrew Foggo -- Body size and diversity in marine systems / Richard M. Warwick -- Interplay between individual growth and population feedbacks shapes body-size distributions / Lennart Persson and André M. De Roos -- The consequences of body-size in model microbial ecosystems / Owen L. Petchey, Zachary T. Long and Peter J. Morin -- Body size, exploitation and conservation of marine organisms / Simon Jennings and John D. Reynolds -- How body size mediates the role of animals in nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems / Robert O. Hall, Jr. ... [et al.] -- Body sizes in food chains of animal predators and parasites / Joel E. Cohen -- Body size in aquatic ecology : important, but not the whole story / Alan G. Hildrew, David G. Raffaelli and Ronni Edmonds-Brown.