In: Dynamic food webs: multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change, 2006, p. 48-55
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In: Ecology, 2002, vol. 83, no. 9, p. 2394-2407
A food web customarily describes the qualitative feeding relationships in a community. Descriptors have been used to extract ecologically meaningful information from such data, e.g., the proportion of top species (the proportion of taxa without consumers) or vulnerability (the average number of consumers per taxon). Analyses of collections of food webs based on these properties have revealed...
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In: Nature, 2004, vol. 427, p. 835-839
Food webs are descriptions of who eats whom in an ecosystem. Although extremely complex and variable, their structure possesses basic regularities. A fascinating question is to find a simple model capturing the underlying processes behind these repeatable patterns. Until now, two models have been devised for the description of trophic interactions within a natural community. Both are essentially...
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