Université de Fribourg

How do complex food webs persist in nature ?

Dell, Anthony I. ; Kokkoris, Giorgos D. ; Banašek-Richter, Carolin ; Bersier, Louis-Félix ; Dunne, Jennifer A. ; Kondoh, Michio ; Romanuk, Tamara N. ; Martinez, Neo D.

In: Dynamic food webs: multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change, 2005, p. 425-436

Université de Fribourg

Food web structure: from scale invariance to scale dependence, and back again?

Banašek-Richter, Carolin ; Cattin, Marie-France ; Bersier, Louis-Félix

In: Dynamic food webs: multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change, 2006, p. 48-55

Université de Fribourg

Quantitative descriptors of food web matrices

Bersier, Louis-Félix ; Banašek-Richter, Carolin ; Cattin, Marie-France

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...