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the nutrient and energy stores. "Organisms usually extract energy in the form of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. These polymers have a dual role as supplies of energy as well as building blocks; the part that functions as energy supply results in the production of nutrients (and carbon dioxide, water, and heat). Excretion of nutrients is, therefore, basic to metabolism." The units in energy flow webs are typically a measure mass or energy per m per unit time. Different consumers are going to have different metabolic assimilation efficiencies in their diets. Each trophic level transforms energy into biomass. Energy flow diagrams illustrate the rates and efficiency of transfer from one trophic level into another and up through the hierarchy.
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referred to as cliques, hubs, compartments, cohesive sub-groups, or modules...Within food webs, especially in aquatic systems, nestedness appears to be related to body size because the diets of smaller predators tend to be nested subsets of those of larger predators (Woodward & Warren 2007; YvonDurocher et al. 2008), and phylogenetic constraints, whereby related taxa are nested based on their common evolutionary history, are also evident (Cattin et al. 2004)." "Compartments in food webs are subgroups of taxa in which many strong interactions occur within the subgroups and few weak interactions occur between the subgroups. Theoretically, compartments increase the stability in networks, such as food webs."
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Phytoplankton live just a few days, whereas the zooplankton eating the phytoplankton live for several weeks and the fish eating the zooplankton live for several consecutive years. Aquatic predators also tend to have a lower death rate than the smaller consumers, which contributes to the inverted pyramidal pattern. Population structure, migration rates, and environmental refuge for prey are other possible causes for pyramids with biomass inverted. Energy pyramids, however, will always have an upright pyramid shape if all sources of food energy are included and this is dictated by the
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of primary production in plants. Although the predators do not eat the plants directly, they regulate the population of herbivores that are directly linked to plant trophism. The net effect of direct and indirect relations is called trophic cascades. Trophic cascades are separated into species-level cascades, where only a subset of the food-web dynamic is impacted by a change in population numbers, and community-level cascades, where a change in population numbers has a dramatic effect on the entire food-web, such as the distribution of plant biomass.
561:. The basis of trophic dynamics is the transfer of energy from one part of the ecosystem to another. The trophic dynamic concept has served as a useful quantitative heuristic, but it has several major limitations including the precision by which an organism can be allocated to a specific trophic level. Omnivores, for example, are not restricted to any single level. Nonetheless, recent research has found that discrete trophic levels do exist, but "above the herbivore trophic level, food webs are better characterized as a tangled web of omnivores."
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methods for measuring network complexity. Connectance is "the fraction of all possible links that are realized in a network". These concepts were derived and stimulated through the suggestion that complexity leads to stability in food webs, such as increasing the number of trophic levels in more species rich ecosystems. This hypothesis was challenged through mathematical models suggesting otherwise, but subsequent studies have shown that the premise holds in real systems.
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interaction in which specialists interact with species that form perfect subsets of the species with which generalists interact", "—that is, the diet of the most specialized species is a subset of the diet of the next more generalized species, and its diet a subset of the next more generalized, and so on." Until recently, it was thought that food webs had little nested structure, but empirical evidence shows that many published webs have nested subwebs in their assembly.
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569:. Alternatively to the top-down hypothesis, not all plant material is edible and the nutritional quality or antiherbivore defenses of plants (structural and chemical) suggests a bottom-up form of regulation or control. Recent studies have concluded that both "top-down" and "bottom-up" forces can influence community structure and the strength of the influence is environmentally context dependent. These complex multitrophic interactions involve more than two
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become further removed from the source of production is one of several patterns that is repeated amongst the planets ecosystems. The size of each level in the pyramid generally represents biomass, which can be measured as the dry weight of an organism. Autotrophs may have the highest global proportion of biomass, but they are closely rivaled or surpassed by microbes.
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length depending on what parameters of the food web dynamic are being considered: connectance, energy, or interaction. In its simplest form, the length of a chain is the number of links between a trophic consumer and the base of the web. The mean chain length of an entire web is the arithmetic average of the lengths of all chains in a food web.
1239:. "This leads to anomalies, such as food web calculations determining that an ecosystem can support one half of a top carnivore, without specifying which end." Nonetheless, real differences in structure and function have been identified when comparing different kinds of ecological food webs, such as terrestrial vs. aquatic food webs.
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1008:. These characterizations stem from the ecosystem concept, which assumes that the phenomena under investigation (interactions and feedback loops) are sufficient to explain patterns within boundaries, such as the edge of a forest, an island, a shoreline, or some other pronounced physical characteristic.
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At different levels in the hierarchy of life, such as the stability of a food web, "the same overall structure is maintained in spite of an ongoing flow and change of components." The farther a living system (e.g., ecosystem) sways from equilibrium, the greater its complexity. Complexity has multiple
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where, S(S-1)/2 is the maximum number of binary connections among S species. "Connectance (C) is the fraction of all possible links that are realized (L/S) and represents a standard measure of food web complexity..." The distance (d) between every species pair in a web is averaged to compute the mean
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A common metric used to quantify food web trophic structure is food chain length. Food chain length is another way of describing food webs as a measure of the number of species encountered as energy or nutrients move from the plants to top predators. There are different ways of calculating food chain
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The linkages in a food web illustrate the feeding pathways, such as where heterotrophs obtain organic matter by feeding on autotrophs and other heterotrophs. The food web is a simplified illustration of the various methods of feeding that link an ecosystem into a unified system of exchange. There are
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and his terminology, including an "entangled bank", "web of life", "web of complex relations", and in reference to the decomposition actions of earthworms he talked about "the continued movement of the particles of earth". Even earlier, in 1768 John
Bruckner described nature as "one continued web of
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web energy pathways. Ecologists employ stoichiometry to analyze the ratios of the main elements found in all organisms: carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P). There is a large transitional difference between many terrestrial and aquatic systems as C:P and C:N ratios are much higher in terrestrial
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place the primary producers at the base. They can depict different numerical properties of ecosystems, including numbers of individuals per unit of area, biomass (g/m), and energy (k cal m yr). The emergent pyramidal arrangement of trophic levels with amounts of energy transfer decreasing as species
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Biomass represents stored energy. However, concentration and quality of nutrients and energy is variable. Many plant fibers, for example, are indigestible to many herbivores leaving grazer community food webs more nutrient limited than detrital food webs where bacteria are able to access and release
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by suppressing herbivores. Links in a food-web illustrate direct trophic relations among species, but there are also indirect effects that can alter the abundance, distribution, or biomass in the trophic levels. For example, predators eating herbivores indirectly influence the control and regulation
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as exists in the woody trees of terrestrial ecosystems. However, they are able to reproduce quickly enough to support a larger biomass of grazers. This inverts the pyramid. Primary consumers have longer lifespans and slower growth rates that accumulates more biomass than the producers they consume.
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terrestrial ecosystem. The trophic pyramid roughly represents the biomass (usually measured as total dry-weight) at each level. Plants generally have the greatest biomass. Names of trophic categories are shown to the right of the pyramid. Some ecosystems, such as many wetlands, do not organize as a
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subsequently pioneered the concept of food cycles, food chains, and food size in his classical 1927 book "Animal
Ecology"; Elton's 'food cycle' was replaced by 'food web' in a subsequent ecological text. After Charles Elton's use of food webs in his 1927 synthesis, they became a central concept in
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While the complexity of real food webs connections are difficult to decipher, ecologists have found mathematical models on networks an invaluable tool for gaining insight into the structure, stability, and laws of food web behaviours relative to observable outcomes. "Food web theory centers around
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In a detrital web, plant and animal matter is broken down by decomposers, e.g., bacteria and fungi, and moves to detritivores and then carnivores. There are often relationships between the detrital web and the grazing web. Mushrooms produced by decomposers in the detrital web become a food source
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in ecology), and small path length compared to a regular lattice. "Ecological networks, especially mutualistic networks, are generally very heterogeneous, consisting of areas with sparse links among species and distinct areas of tightly linked species. These regions of high link density are often
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Several concepts have emerged from the study of complexity in food webs. Complexity explains many principals pertaining to self-organization, non-linearity, interaction, cybernetic feedback, discontinuity, emergence, and stability in food webs. Nestedness, for example, is defined as "a pattern of
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is a term that conveys the mental intractability of understanding all possible higher-order effects in a food web. Sometimes in food web terminology, complexity is defined as product of the number of species and connectance., though there have been criticisms of this definition and other proposed
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in eutrophic (green) and oligotrophic (blue) summer conditions. In the Green system state, both copepods and microzooplankton exert a strong grazing pressure on phytoplankton, while in the Blue state, copepods increase their predation over microzooplankton, which in turn shifts its predation from
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In a simple predator-prey example, a deer is one step removed from the plants it eats (chain length = 1) and a wolf that eats the deer is two steps removed from the plants (chain length = 2). The relative amount or strength of influence that these parameters have on the food web address questions
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An expanded three link energy food chain (1. plants, 2. herbivores, 3. carnivores) illustrating the relationship between food flow diagrams and energy transformity. The transformity of energy becomes degraded, dispersed, and diminished from higher quality to lesser quantity as the energy within a
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Pyramid structure can vary across ecosystems and across time. In some instances biomass pyramids can be inverted. This pattern is often identified in aquatic and coral reef ecosystems. The pattern of biomass inversion is attributed to different sizes of producers. Aquatic communities are often
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Food webs depict energy flow via trophic linkages. Energy flow is directional, which contrasts against the cyclic flows of material through the food web systems. Energy flow "typically includes production, consumption, assimilation, non-assimilation losses (feces), and respiration (maintenance
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A central question in the trophic dynamic literature is the nature of control and regulation over resources and production. Ecologists use simplified one trophic position food chain models (producer, carnivore, decomposer). Using these models, ecologists have tested various types of ecological
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Ecologists collect data on trophic levels and food webs to statistically model and mathematically calculate parameters, such as those used in other kinds of network analysis (e.g., graph theory), to study emergent patterns and properties shared among ecosystems. There are different ecological
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Food webs are the road-maps through Darwin's famous 'entangled bank' and have a long history in ecology. Like maps of unfamiliar ground, food webs appear bewilderingly complex. They were often published to make just that point. Yet recent studies have shown that food webs from a wide range of
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In the simplest scheme, the first trophic level (level 1) is plants, then herbivores (level 2), and then carnivores (level 3). The trophic level is equal to one more than the chain length, which is the number of links connecting to the base. The base of the food chain (primary producers or
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increases. About eighty to ninety percent of the energy is expended for the organism's life processes or is lost as heat or waste. Only about ten to twenty percent of the organism's energy is generally passed to the next organism. The amount can be less than one percent in
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Food webs are also complex in the way that they change in scale, seasonally, and geographically. The components of food webs, including organisms and mineral nutrients, cross the thresholds of ecosystem boundaries. This has led to the concept or area of study known as
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create and cycle nutrients and biominerals. Food web models and nutrient cycles have traditionally been treated separately, but there is a strong functional connection between the two in terms of stability, flux, sources, sinks, and recycling of mineral nutrients.
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that have developed a tolerance for these compounds and are able to consume the foliage of these plants. These sequestered iridoid glycosides then confer chemical protection against bird predators to the butterfly larvae. Another example of this sort of
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and his terminology, including an "entangled bank", "web of life", "web of complex relations", and in reference to the decomposition actions of earthworms he talked about "the continued movement of the particles of earth". Even earlier, in 1768
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strict pyramid, because aquatic plants are not as productive as long-lived terrestrial plants such as trees. Ecological trophic pyramids are typically one of three kinds: 1) pyramid of numbers, 2) pyramid of biomass, or 3) pyramid of energy.
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control mechanisms. For example, herbivores generally have an abundance of vegetative resources, which meant that their populations were largely controlled or regulated by predators. This is known as the top-down hypothesis or
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as they flow through organisms. Most of the primary production in an ecosystem is not consumed, but is recycled by detritus back into useful nutrients. Many of the Earth's microorganisms are involved in the formation of
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Food webs have trophic levels and positions. Basal species, such as plants, form the first level and are the resource limited species that feed on no other living creature in the web. Basal species can be autotrophs or
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pioneered the concept of food cycles, food chains, and food size in his classical 1927 book "Animal
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Within these categories, food webs can be further organized according to the different kinds of ecosystems being investigated. For example, human food webs, agricultural food webs, detrital food webs,
305:) linked to decomposers. The movement of mineral nutrients is cyclic, whereas the movement of energy is unidirectional and noncyclic. Trophic species are encircled as nodes and arrows depict the links.
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distance between all nodes in a web (D) and multiplied by the total number of links (L) to obtain link-density (LD), which is influenced by scale-dependent variables such as
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5596:Montoya, J. M.; Pimm, S. L.; Solé, R. V. (2006).
5005:
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2904:
2778:
1759:Pimm, S. L.; Lawton, J. H.; Cohen, J. E. (1991).
1588:
433:, which is usually a larger predatory carnivore.
250:described nature as "one continued web of life".
8401:
5946:
5667:
4955:"Two degrees of separation in complex food webs"
4152:Geological Society, London, Special Publications
4139:
3189:"Energy flow in ecosystems: A historical review"
2992:
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2162:
2048:
281:had identified patterns that are common to all.
6103:Nature's economy: A history of ecological ideas
5595:
5537:
5379:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
5121:"Environmental correlates of food chain length"
4959:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
4754:
4752:
4442:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
3955:
3783:The Science of Water: Concepts and Applications
3388:The Science of Water: Concepts and Applications
2905:Tscharntke, Teja; Hawkins, Bradford A. (2002).
2169:Tavares-Cromar, A. F.; Williams, D. D. (1996).
1758:
1500: – Underwater areas highly dense with kelp
4435:
4392:
4094:
2857:"When is a trophic cascade a trophic cascade?"
1891:Allesina, S.; Alonso, D.; Pascual, M. (2008).
1589:Cohen, J.E.; Briand, F.; Newman, C.M. (1990).
1410: – Predator at the bottom of a food chain
870:
553:Trophic dynamics and multitrophic interactions
7598:
6851:
6299:
5909:Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
5890:Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
5295:
4948:
4946:
4944:
4622:
4554:"Compartments revealed in food-web structure"
3746:
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3264:
2779:Tscharntke, T.; Hawkins, B. A., eds. (2002).
2513:
2511:
2446:
2444:
2442:
2377:
2375:
1482: – Living and non-living things on Earth
1427: – Variety and variability of life forms
5670:"Food webs are built up with nested subwebs"
5291:
5289:
4749:
4618:
4616:
3094:
2772:
2650:"Food web complexity and community dynamics"
2294:
2292:
1439: – Dietary interactions between species
1154:{\displaystyle C={\cfrac {t_{L}}{S(S-1)/2}}}
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3495:
3445:. Oxford University Press US. p. 510.
3418:. Oxford University Press US. p. 511.
2854:
2647:
1833:
1699:"Network thinking in ecology and evolution"
1623:
1176:
634:that are sequestered in the tissues of the
7819:Latitudinal gradients in species diversity
7605:
7591:
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3261:
3095:Sterner, R. W.; Small, G. E.; Hood, J. M.
2577:
2508:
2439:
2372:
2042:
1761:"Food web patterns and their consequences"
1692:
1690:
1185:A simplified version of a food web in the
657:
134:, although a very small amount comes from
38:food web. The blue arrows show a complete
6076:
5874:
5857:
5808:
5784:
5737:
5710:
5693:
5668:Michio, K.; Kato, S.; Sakato, Y. (2010).
5598:"Ecological networks and their fragility"
5589:
5566:
5522:
5435:Capra, F. (2007). "Complexity and life".
5408:
5398:
5346:
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5296:Proctor, J. D.; Larson, B. M. H. (2005).
5286:
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2831:
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2546:
2347:
2289:
2227:
2225:
2205:
2123:"The long and short of food chain length"
2049:Williams, R. J.; Martinez, N. D. (2000).
1991:
1884:
1863:
1861:
1660:
1567:
1488: – Complex living system in the soil
1043:
292:
7717:Predator–prey (Lotka–Volterra) equations
7356:Tritrophic interactions in plant defense
6054:
5984:Fisheries Investigation London Series II
5825:
5661:
5559:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.38.091206.095818
5455:
5176:
5112:
4707:Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
4542:
4247:Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
4088:
3865:Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
3779:
3384:
2758:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.39.110707.173418
2583:
2517:
2450:
2315:
1893:"A general model for food web structure"
1829:
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1823:
1821:
1819:
1754:
1752:
1750:
1748:
1746:
1744:
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1666:
1492:Tritrophic interactions in plant defense
1287:were produced by Victor Summerhayes and
1246:
1180:
1010:
942:
822:
814:
782:
694:
661:
587:
504:
429:consumers from a base species up to the
296:
29:
7749:Random generalized Lotka–Volterra model
6099:
6031:
5994:
5906:
5793:"Ecological networks: beyond food webs"
5507:"Defining and unraveling biocomplexity"
5425:
5363:
5265:
5067:
4874:
4847:
4688:
4488:
4436:Ehrlich, P. R.; Pringle, R. M. (2008).
4273:
3983:
3891:
3862:
3554:
3378:
3355:
2988:
2986:
2848:
2743:
2691:
2641:
2453:"The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology"
2298:
1687:
1467: – Marine consumer-resource system
1242:
581:herbivores that utilize the same plant
387:from a productive base of self-feeding
14:
8402:
7557:Herbivore adaptations to plant defense
6313:
6082:
5461:
5017:"Complexity in quantitative food webs"
4623:Bormann, F. H.; Likens, G. E. (1967).
4323:"How many species are there on Earth?"
3949:
3800:
3516:
3459:
3213:
3180:
3111:
2928:
2926:
2321:
2222:
2114:
2051:"Simple rules yield complex food webs"
2000:
1956:
1858:
778:
27:Natural interconnection of food chains
7586:
6839:
6287:
6190:
6126:
6037:
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6003:
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5434:
4883:
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4035:
3753:Groombridge, B.; Jenkins, M. (2002).
3565:
3361:
1867:
1816:
1739:
1455:Food web of the San Francisco Estuary
922:
803:ecosystems exhibit inverted pyramids.
450:"Why you should care about parasites"
364:. A food web depicts a collection of
7572:Predator avoidance in schooling fish
5717:Montoya, J. M.; Solé, R. V. (2002).
5269:Ecology: From ecosystem to biosphere
3496:Odum, E. P.; Barrett, G. W. (2005).
3489:
3468:
3438:
3411:
3219:
3186:
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2983:
2648:Polis, G. A.; Strong, D. R. (1996).
2231:
2120:
1834:Odum, E. P.; Barrett, G. W. (2005).
1592:Community Food Webs: Data and Theory
1528:
1421: – Superseded ecological theory
94:their bodies, grow, develop, and to
8022:Intermediate disturbance hypothesis
5880:
5719:"Small world patterns in food webs"
5298:"Ecology, complexity, and metaphor"
5272:. Science Publishers. p. 490.
4320:
3877:10.1146/annurev.es.01.110170.001131
2923:
1015:An illustration of a soil food web.
24:
7775:Ecological effects of biodiversity
6184:
5538:Bascompte, J.; Jordan, P. (2007).
5335:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
3696:"Prokaryotes: The unseen majority"
644:multitrophic interaction in plants
70:is the natural interconnection of
25:
8421:
7111:Generalist and specialist species
5119:Briand, F.; Cohen, J. E. (1987).
2855:Polis, G.A.; et al. (2000).
2301:"Ecologists build pyramids again"
1308:, which formed the basis for the
1255:'s 1923 food web of Bear Island (
1194:Food webs are extremely complex.
494:
261:(or mathematical representation)
166:that can be roughly divided into
7834:Occupancy–abundance relationship
6477:
6168:
6155:
6120:
5810:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01460.x
4719:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.28.1.289
4223:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2005.00019.x
4015:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00606.x
3241:10.4319/lo.1988.33.4_part_2.0910
3081:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00834.x
1385:
1371:
1357:
1343:
1310:trophic system of classification
969:Community (or connectedness) web
444:
239:trophic system of classification
7854:Relative abundance distribution
7567:Plant defense against herbivory
7434:Competitive exclusion principle
7146:Mesopredator release hypothesis
6022:
5975:
5940:
5927:
5900:
5322:
5078:Advances in Ecological Research
4820:
4793:
4259:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.20.1.71
3836:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.03.005
3773:
3528:Trends in Ecology and Evolution
3471:Trends in Ecology and Evolution
3432:
3405:
3047:
2907:Multitrophic Level Interactions
2898:
2864:Trends in Ecology and Evolution
2799:
2782:Multitrophic Level Interactions
2130:Trends in Ecology and Evolution
1706:Trends in Ecology and Evolution
1515:Trophic relationships in rivers
1498:Trophic ecology of kelp forests
1494: – Ecological interactions
1304:. Elton organized species into
1019:
303:producers-herbivores-carnivores
7439:Consumer–resource interactions
5937:. University of Chicago Press.
5726:Journal of Theoretical Biology
4833:. Rex Book Store. p. 58.
4415:10.1126/science.328.5976.307-c
2241:Theoretical Population Biology
1617:
1582:
1509:Trophic relationships in lakes
1437:Consumer–resource interactions
1135:
1123:
636:Taylor's checkerspot butterfly
164:consumer–resource interactions
126:, which mainly comes from the
13:
1:
8285:Biological data visualization
8112:Environmental niche modelling
7839:Population viability analysis
6041:Animal life and social growth
4350:10.1126/science.241.4872.1441
3665:Rickleffs, Robert E. (1996).
3483:10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02455-2
3140:10.1126/science.242.4882.1132
2884:10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01971-6
2142:10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02455-2
1522:
1414:Aquatic-terrestrial subsidies
1283:in 1913. Two food webs about
748:
646:is the transfer of defensive
7770:Density-dependent inhibition
4652:10.1126/science.155.3761.424
4517:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060102
3502:. Brooks Cole. p. 598.
2261:10.1016/0040-5809(79)90010-8
2234:"The structure of food webs"
865:second law of thermodynamics
575:arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
325:is an obsolete term that is
7:
8239:Liebig's law of the minimum
8074:Resource selection function
6965:Metabolic theory of ecology
5547:Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst
3780:Spellman, Frank R. (2008).
3671:University of Chicago Press
3385:Spellman, Frank R. (2008).
1473: – Biological food web
1336:
871:Material flux and recycling
527:, but some autotrophs (the
106:substances, including both
10:
8426:
8139:Niche apportionment models
7859:Relative species abundance
7063:Primary nutritional groups
6960:List of feeding behaviours
6174:Pimm SL (1982) Food Webs,
6163:Princeton University Press
4286:Limnology and Oceanography
3786:. CRC Press. p. 167.
3700:Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
3548:10.1016/j.tree.2003.09.003
3391:. CRC Press. p. 165.
3368:Nature Education Knowledge
3101:Nature Education Knowledge
3097:"The conservation of mass"
2959:10.1038/s41598-020-80413-y
2299:Cousins, S. (1985-07-04).
1874:Nature Education Knowledge
1718:10.1016/j.tree.2005.04.004
1460:List of feeding behaviours
874:
752:
680:
674:
592:Multitrophic interaction:
498:
229:, which was the basis for
8388:
8320:Ecosystem based fisheries
8262:
8162:
8087:
7960:
7932:Interspecific competition
7897:
7824:Minimum viable population
7757:
7682:Maximum sustainable yield
7667:Intraspecific competition
7662:Effective population size
7625:
7542:Anti-predator adaptations
7527:
7406:
7333:
7290:
7212:
7179:
7076:
7053:Photosynthetic efficiency
6988:
6882:
6825:Category:Eating behaviors
6800:
6646:
6570:
6549:
6486:
6475:
6442:
6406:
6330:
6321:
6196:Food webs and niche space
5797:Journal of Animal Ecology
5266:Leveque, C., ed. (2003).
4806:. Springer. p. 279.
4307:10.4319/lo.1996.41.7.1425
4202:FEMS Microbiology Ecology
3568:Journal of Animal Ecology
2324:"Protecting biostructure"
2028:10.1016/j.tim.2009.05.004
1601:10.1007/978-3-642-83784-5
1511: – Type of ecosystem
595:Euphydryas editha taylori
443:
438:
267:consumer-resource systems
138:in wetlands, and mineral
8310:Ecological stoichiometry
8275:Alternative stable state
6277:NOAA Education Resources
5348:10.3389/fevo.2021.623141
2584:Fretwell, S. D. (1987).
2518:Hairston, N. G. (1993).
2451:Lindeman, R. L. (1942).
1667:Kormondy, E. J. (1996).
1402:Anti-predator adaptation
1177:Complexity and stability
948:grained trophic species.
911:. Bacteria that live in
795:pyramid of biomass, and
716:It is the case that the
567:'green-world' hypothesis
401:(i.e., the community of
8154:Ontogenetic niche shift
8017:Ideal free distribution
7927:Ecological facilitation
7677:Malthusian growth model
7647:Consumer-resource model
7504:Paradox of the plankton
7469:Energy systems language
7189:Chemoorganoheterotrophy
7156:Optimal foraging theory
7131:Heterotrophic nutrition
6805:Antipredator adaptation
6249:10.1126/science.abn4012
6129:The American Naturalist
5215:10.1126/science.1068326
5148:10.1126/science.3672136
4463:10.1073/pnas.0801911105
4109:10.1126/science.1072076
4058:10.1126/science.7008198
3721:10.1073/pnas.95.12.6578
3631:10.1126/science.1072080
3499:Fundamentals of ecology
2833:10.1111/1365-2435.12181
2658:The American Naturalist
2527:The American Naturalist
1920:10.1126/science.1156269
1837:Fundamentals of Ecology
1569:10.5194/bg-12-7169-2015
1251:Victor Summerhayes and
658:Energy flow and biomass
353:, than they use during
8300:Ecological forecasting
8244:Marginal value theorem
8042:Landscape epidemiology
7977:Cross-boundary subsidy
7912:Biological interaction
7262:Microbial intelligence
6950:Green world hypothesis
6089:. London: John Murray.
6083:Darwin, C. R. (1881).
6058:Proc. Am. Philos. Soc.
5850:10.1098/rspb.2005.3377
5756:10.1006/jtbi.2001.2460
5400:10.1073/pnas.192407699
4980:10.1073/pnas.192448799
4759:O'Neil, R. V. (2001).
3439:Kent, Michael (2000).
3412:Kent, Michael (2000).
3331:10.1098/rspb.2008.0951
2016:Trends in Microbiology
1870:"Secondary production"
1327:theoretical ecologists
1260:
1237:cross-boundary subsidy
1214:Food webs are complex
1191:
1155:
1044:Quantitative food webs
1016:
949:
828:
820:
812:
701:
692:
672:
599:
515:
314:
306:
293:Taxonomy of a food web
63:
8305:Ecological humanities
8204:Ecological energetics
8149:Niche differentiation
8012:Habitat fragmentation
7780:Ecological extinction
7727:Small population size
7479:Feed conversion ratio
7459:Ecological succession
7391:San Francisco Estuary
7305:Ecological efficiency
7247:Microbial cooperation
6038:Allee, W. C. (1932).
6004:Elton, C. S. (1927).
5933:Shelford, V. (1913).
4884:Paine, R. T. (1988).
3667:The Economy of Nature
3362:Benke, A. C. (2011).
2178:Ecological Monographs
1868:Benke, A. C. (2010).
1379:Earth sciences portal
1250:
1224:scale free properties
1184:
1156:
1014:
1000:, aquatic food webs,
946:
826:
818:
786:
698:
687:
683:Ecological efficiency
677:Energy flow (ecology)
665:
591:
537:, which lives in hot
508:
309:
300:
98:, autotrophs produce
33:
8330:Evolutionary ecology
8295:Ecological footprint
8290:Ecological economics
8214:Ecological threshold
8209:Ecological indicator
8079:Source–sink dynamics
8032:Land change modeling
8027:Insular biogeography
7879:Species distribution
7618:Modelling ecosystems
7277:Microbial metabolism
7116:Intraguild predation
6905:Biogeochemical cycle
6871:Modelling ecosystems
6100:Worster, D. (1994).
3816:Ecological Modelling
3220:Mann, K. H. (1988).
3187:Odum, E. P. (1968).
2692:Hoekman, D. (2010).
2232:Pimm, S. L. (1979).
2121:Post, D. M. (2002).
1972:Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser
1431:Biogeochemical cycle
1243:History of food webs
1084:
907:in a process called
881:Many of the Earth's
791:pyramid of numbers,
362:secondary production
319:ecological community
76:ecological community
8380:Theoretical ecology
8355:Natural environment
8219:Ecosystem diversity
8189:Ecological collapse
8179:Bateman's principle
8134:Limiting similarity
8047:Landscape limnology
7869:Species homogeneity
7707:Population modeling
7702:Population dynamics
7519:Trophic state index
6820:Carnivorous protist
6674:Intraguild predator
6273:"Aquatic Food Webs"
6241:2022Sci...377.1008F
6235:(6609): 1008–1011.
5748:2002JThBi.214..405M
5686:2010Ecol...91.3123K
5625:10.1038/nature04927
5617:2006Natur.442..259M
5476:1988Ecol...69.1673P
5391:2002PNAS...9912917D
5385:(20): 12917–12922.
5207:2002Sci...296.1120N
5140:1987Sci...238..956B
5033:2009Ecol...90.1470B
4971:2002PNAS...9912913W
4965:(20): 12913–12916.
4905:1988Ecol...69.1648P
4644:1967Sci...155..424B
4581:10.1038/nature02115
4573:2003Natur.426..282K
4454:2008PNAS..10511579E
4448:(S1): 11579–11586.
4407:2010Sci...328..307B
4342:1988Sci...241.1441M
4336:(4872): 1441–1449.
4321:May, R. M. (1988).
4298:1996LimOc..41.1425T
4214:2006FEMME..55..311G
4164:2010GSLSP.336...31G
4103:(5609): 1027–1029.
4050:1981Sci...211.1126L
4044:(4487): 1126–1131.
4007:2004EcolL...7..584M
3919:2000Natur.408..578E
3828:2009EcMod.220.1376W
3712:1998PNAS...95.6578W
3625:(5570): 1035–1037.
3580:1980JAnEc..49..666P
3540:2003TEcoE..18..628W
3292:2004Ecol...85.1230K
3132:1988Sci...242.1132O
3126:(4882): 1132–1139.
3072:2005EcolL...8.1256L
3011:2018Ecol...99..399H
2951:2021NatSR..11..992H
2876:2000TEcoE..15..473P
2824:2014FuEco..28..375B
2713:2010Ecol...91.2819H
2605:1987Oikos..50..291F
2472:1942Ecol...23..399L
2403:2007Ecol...88..612T
2340:2007Natur.446...29M
2322:McCann, K. (2007).
2253:1979TPBio..16..144P
2190:1996EcoM...66...91T
2070:2000Natur.404..180W
1984:1983MEPS...10..257A
1912:2008Sci...320..658A
1780:1991Natur.350..669P
1670:Concepts of ecology
1638:1984Natur.307..264B
1560:2015BGeo...12.7169N
1480:Natural environment
1117:
1098:
1053:(type of species),
1051:species composition
1006:microbial food webs
851:Ecological pyramids
779:Ecological pyramids
743:ecological pyramids
559:Raymond L. Lindeman
162:different kinds of
8391:Outline of ecology
8340:Industrial ecology
8335:Functional ecology
8199:Ecological deficit
8144:Niche construction
8107:Ecosystem engineer
7884:Species–area curve
7805:Introduced species
7620:: Other components
7552:Deimatic behaviour
7454:Ecological network
7386:North Pacific Gyre
7371:hydrothermal vents
7310:Ecological pyramid
7257:Microbial food web
7068:Primary production
7013:Foundation species
6815:Carnivorous fungus
6465:Sexual cannibalism
6450:Animal cannibalism
6315:Feeding behaviours
6176:Chapman & Hall
5949:Journal of Ecology
5201:(550): 1120–1123.
4625:"Nutrient cycling"
3206:10.1093/icb/8.1.11
3193:American Zoologist
2939:Scientific Reports
2812:Functional Ecology
1993:10.3354/meps010257
1471:Microbial food web
1443:Ecological network
1351:Environment portal
1295:in 1923 and 1924.
1261:
1192:
1151:
1147:
1112:
1017:
950:
923:Kinds of food webs
845:aquatic ecosystems
829:
821:
813:
702:
673:
632:iridoid glycosides
600:
516:
307:
156:carnivorous plants
144:hydrothermal vents
120:chemical reactions
64:
8397:
8396:
8280:Balance of nature
8037:Landscape ecology
7922:Community ecology
7864:Species diversity
7800:Indicator species
7795:Gradient analysis
7672:Logistic function
7580:
7579:
7537:Animal coloration
7514:Trophic mutualism
7252:Microbial ecology
7043:Photoheterotrophs
7028:Myco-heterotrophy
6940:Ecosystem ecology
6925:Carrying capacity
6890:Abiotic component
6833:
6832:
6810:Carnivorous plant
6686:Aquatic predation
6473:
6472:
6455:Human cannibalism
6205:978-0-691-08202-8
6113:978-0-521-46834-3
6015:978-0-226-20639-4
5695:10.1890/09-2219.1
5680:(11): 3123–3130.
5611:(7100): 259–264.
5517:(12): 1018–1023.
5308:(12): 1065–1068.
5279:978-1-57808-294-0
5134:(4829): 956–960.
5091:978-0-12-381363-3
5042:10.1890/08-2207.1
4840:978-971-23-3563-1
4813:978-1-4020-5527-0
4774:(12): 3275–3284.
4638:(3761): 424–429.
4567:(6964): 282–285.
4401:(5976): 307–308.
3913:(6812): 578–580.
3822:(11): 1376–1382.
3793:978-1-4200-5544-3
3766:978-0-520-23668-4
3680:978-0-7167-3847-3
3509:978-0-534-42066-6
3452:978-0-19-914195-1
3425:978-0-19-914195-1
3398:978-1-4200-5544-3
3325:(1654): 109–114.
3066:(12): 1256–1263.
2916:978-0-511-06719-8
2792:978-0-521-79110-6
2722:10.1890/10-0260.1
2707:(10): 2819–2825.
2064:(6774): 180–183.
1906:(5876): 658–661.
1847:978-0-534-42066-6
1774:(6320): 669–674.
1680:978-0-13-478116-7
1632:(5948): 264–267.
1504:Trophic mutualism
1419:Balance of nature
1306:functional groups
1149:
1116:
1097:
1059:Microcosm studies
909:biomineralization
896:Mineral nutrients
461:
460:
455:Knowable Magazine
227:functional groups
136:bioelectrogenesis
86:, based on their
16:(Redirected from
8417:
8097:Ecological niche
8069:selection theory
7889:Umbrella species
7874:Species richness
7810:Invasive species
7790:Flagship species
7697:Population cycle
7692:Overexploitation
7657:Ecological yield
7607:
7600:
7593:
7584:
7583:
7489:Mesotrophic soil
7429:Climax community
7361:Marine food webs
7300:Biomagnification
7101:Chemoorganotroph
6955:Keystone species
6915:Biotic component
6860:
6853:
6846:
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6460:Self-cannibalism
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5571:. Archived from
5570:
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5470:(6): 1673–1676.
5459:
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4292:(7): 1425–1437.
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3436:
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3415:Advanced Biology
3409:
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3286:(5): 1230–1243.
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3229:Limnol. Oceanogr
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2078:10.1038/35004572
2055:
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1995:
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1831:
1814:
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1788:10.1038/350669a0
1765:
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1728:. Archived from
1703:
1694:
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1621:
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1362:
1361:
1360:
1353:
1348:
1347:
1314:Raymond Lindeman
1277:Lorenzo Camerano
1228:keystone species
1168:species richness
1160:
1158:
1157:
1152:
1150:
1148:
1146:
1142:
1113:
1111:
1110:
1109:
1094:
998:marine food webs
900:nutrient cycling
860:secondary growth
616:chemical ecology
529:chemolithotrophs
448:
447:
436:
435:
287:species richness
231:Raymond Lindeman
60:great blue heron
21:
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8420:
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8410:Trophic ecology
8400:
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8398:
8393:
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8370:Systems ecology
8258:
8229:Extinction debt
8194:Ecological debt
8184:Bioluminescence
8165:
8158:
8127:marine habitats
8102:Ecological trap
8083:
7963:
7956:
7899:
7893:
7849:Rapoport's rule
7844:Priority effect
7785:Endemic species
7753:
7712:Population size
7628:
7621:
7611:
7581:
7576:
7529:
7523:
7509:Trophic cascade
7419:Bioaccumulation
7402:
7329:
7286:
7208:
7175:
7072:
6984:
6945:Ecosystem model
6878:
6864:
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6796:
6787:Surplus killing
6659:Ambush predator
6642:
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6185:Further reading
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5881:Egerton, F. N.
5879:
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1465:Marine food web
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465:biological taxa
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371:consumers that
345:energy, either
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255:trophic species
237:organisms in a
140:electron donors
130:and largely by
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7464:Energy quality
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7050:
7048:Photosynthesis
7045:
7040:
7035:
7030:
7025:
7020:
7015:
7010:
7005:
7003:Chemosynthesis
7000:
6994:
6992:
6986:
6985:
6983:
6982:
6977:
6972:
6967:
6962:
6957:
6952:
6947:
6942:
6937:
6932:
6927:
6922:
6917:
6912:
6907:
6902:
6897:
6895:Abiotic stress
6892:
6886:
6884:
6880:
6879:
6863:
6862:
6855:
6848:
6840:
6831:
6830:
6828:
6827:
6822:
6817:
6812:
6807:
6801:
6798:
6797:
6795:
6794:
6789:
6784:
6779:
6774:
6769:
6764:
6762:Hypercarnivore
6759:
6758:
6757:
6756:
6755:
6745:
6738:Cattle feeding
6735:
6730:
6729:
6728:
6723:
6721:Feeding frenzy
6718:
6713:
6708:
6706:Suction feeder
6703:
6698:
6693:
6683:
6682:
6681:
6676:
6671:
6666:
6661:
6650:
6648:
6644:
6643:
6641:
6640:
6635:
6630:
6625:
6620:
6615:
6610:
6605:
6600:
6595:
6590:
6585:
6580:
6574:
6572:
6568:
6567:
6565:
6564:
6559:
6553:
6551:
6547:
6546:
6544:
6543:
6538:
6533:
6528:
6523:
6518:
6516:Seed predation
6513:
6508:
6503:
6498:
6492:
6490:
6484:
6483:
6476:
6474:
6471:
6470:
6468:
6467:
6462:
6457:
6452:
6446:
6444:
6440:
6439:
6437:
6436:
6431:
6426:
6421:
6416:
6410:
6408:
6404:
6403:
6401:
6400:
6395:
6390:
6385:
6380:
6375:
6370:
6365:
6360:
6355:
6350:
6345:
6340:
6334:
6332:
6325:
6319:
6318:
6311:
6310:
6303:
6296:
6288:
6282:
6281:
6269:
6218:
6204:
6192:Cohen, Joel E.
6186:
6183:
6181:
6180:
6167:
6154:
6141:10.1086/282400
6135:(910): 65–75.
6119:
6112:
6092:
6075:
6064:(2): 235–241.
6047:
6030:
6021:
6014:
6006:Animal Ecology
5993:
5974:
5955:(2): 214–286.
5939:
5926:
5899:
5873:
5824:
5803:(1): 253–269.
5783:
5732:(3): 405–412.
5709:
5660:
5588:
5530:
5497:
5454:
5443:(5): 475–479.
5424:
5362:
5321:
5285:
5278:
5258:
5175:
5111:
5090:
5066:
5004:
4940:
4873:
4862:(3): 898–903.
4846:
4839:
4819:
4812:
4792:
4789:on 2012-04-25.
4748:
4687:
4612:
4541:
4487:
4428:
4385:
4313:
4272:
4237:
4208:(2): 311–321.
4185:
4138:
4087:
4028:
4001:(7): 584–600.
3982:
3948:
3890:
3855:
3799:
3792:
3772:
3765:
3745:
3686:
3679:
3652:
3609:
3574:(3): 666–685.
3553:
3515:
3508:
3488:
3477:(6): 269–277.
3458:
3451:
3431:
3424:
3404:
3397:
3377:
3354:
3305:
3260:
3235:(2): 910–930.
3212:
3179:
3110:
3087:
3046:
3005:(2): 399–410.
2982:
2922:
2915:
2897:
2847:
2818:(2): 375–385.
2798:
2791:
2771:
2736:
2684:
2671:10.1086/285880
2665:(5): 813–846.
2640:
2599:(3): 291–301.
2576:
2539:10.1086/285546
2533:(3): 379–411.
2507:
2466:(4): 399–417.
2438:
2397:(3): 612–617.
2371:
2314:
2288:
2247:(2): 144–158.
2221:
2161:
2136:(6): 269–277.
2113:
2041:
2022:(8): 378–387.
1999:
1955:
1883:
1857:
1854:on 2011-08-20.
1846:
1815:
1738:
1735:on 2011-08-15.
1712:(6): 345–353.
1686:
1679:
1659:
1616:
1609:
1581:
1548:Biogeosciences
1526:
1524:
1521:
1519:
1518:
1512:
1506:
1501:
1495:
1489:
1483:
1477:
1468:
1462:
1457:
1452:
1446:
1440:
1434:
1428:
1422:
1416:
1411:
1405:
1398:
1397:
1396:
1393:Biology portal
1382:
1368:
1365:Ecology portal
1354:
1338:
1335:
1331:Sir Robert May
1318:Charles Darwin
1271:scholar named
1244:
1241:
1187:Gulf of Naples
1178:
1175:
1163:
1162:
1145:
1141:
1137:
1134:
1131:
1128:
1125:
1122:
1108:
1104:
1092:
1089:
1074:
1045:
1042:
1021:
1018:
1002:soil food webs
994:
993:
990:Functional web
987:
978:
972:
966:
960:
924:
921:
877:Nutrient cycle
875:Main article:
872:
869:
809:Abbreviations:
780:
777:
776:
775:
772:
769:
753:Main article:
750:
747:
686:
675:Main article:
659:
656:
571:trophic levels
554:
551:
539:sulfur springs
499:Main article:
496:
495:Trophic levels
493:
459:
458:
452:, 12.14.2018,
441:
440:
381:flow of energy
351:photosynthesis
308:
294:
291:
279:network theory
265:of trophic or
243:Charles Darwin
200:giant redwoods
132:photosynthesis
116:carbon dioxide
100:organic matter
88:trophic levels
26:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
8422:
8411:
8408:
8407:
8405:
8392:
8387:
8381:
8378:
8376:
8375:Urban ecology
8373:
8371:
8368:
8366:
8363:
8361:
8358:
8356:
8353:
8351:
8348:
8346:
8343:
8341:
8338:
8336:
8333:
8331:
8328:
8326:
8323:
8321:
8318:
8316:
8313:
8311:
8308:
8306:
8303:
8301:
8298:
8296:
8293:
8291:
8288:
8286:
8283:
8281:
8278:
8276:
8273:
8271:
8268:
8267:
8265:
8261:
8255:
8252:
8250:
8247:
8245:
8242:
8240:
8237:
8235:
8234:Kleiber's law
8232:
8230:
8227:
8225:
8222:
8220:
8217:
8215:
8212:
8210:
8207:
8205:
8202:
8200:
8197:
8195:
8192:
8190:
8187:
8185:
8182:
8180:
8177:
8175:
8172:
8171:
8169:
8167:
8161:
8155:
8152:
8150:
8147:
8145:
8142:
8140:
8137:
8135:
8132:
8128:
8125:
8124:
8123:
8120:
8118:
8115:
8113:
8110:
8108:
8105:
8103:
8100:
8098:
8095:
8094:
8092:
8090:
8086:
8080:
8077:
8075:
8072:
8070:
8068:
8064:
8060:
8058:
8055:
8053:
8050:
8048:
8045:
8043:
8040:
8038:
8035:
8033:
8030:
8028:
8025:
8023:
8020:
8018:
8015:
8013:
8010:
8008:
8007:Foster's rule
8005:
8003:
8000:
7998:
7995:
7993:
7990:
7988:
7985:
7983:
7980:
7978:
7975:
7973:
7970:
7969:
7967:
7965:
7959:
7953:
7950:
7948:
7945:
7943:
7940:
7938:
7935:
7933:
7930:
7928:
7925:
7923:
7920:
7918:
7915:
7913:
7910:
7908:
7905:
7904:
7902:
7896:
7890:
7887:
7885:
7882:
7880:
7877:
7875:
7872:
7870:
7867:
7865:
7862:
7860:
7857:
7855:
7852:
7850:
7847:
7845:
7842:
7840:
7837:
7835:
7832:
7830:
7827:
7825:
7822:
7820:
7817:
7815:
7811:
7808:
7806:
7803:
7801:
7798:
7796:
7793:
7791:
7788:
7786:
7783:
7781:
7778:
7776:
7773:
7771:
7768:
7766:
7763:
7762:
7760:
7756:
7750:
7747:
7743:
7740:
7738:
7735:
7734:
7733:
7730:
7728:
7725:
7723:
7720:
7718:
7715:
7713:
7710:
7708:
7705:
7703:
7700:
7698:
7695:
7693:
7690:
7688:
7685:
7683:
7680:
7678:
7675:
7673:
7670:
7668:
7665:
7663:
7660:
7658:
7655:
7653:
7650:
7648:
7645:
7643:
7640:
7638:
7635:
7634:
7632:
7630:
7624:
7619:
7615:
7608:
7603:
7601:
7596:
7594:
7589:
7588:
7585:
7573:
7570:
7568:
7565:
7563:
7560:
7558:
7555:
7553:
7550:
7548:
7545:
7543:
7540:
7538:
7535:
7534:
7532:
7526:
7520:
7517:
7515:
7512:
7510:
7507:
7505:
7502:
7500:
7497:
7495:
7492:
7490:
7487:
7485:
7482:
7480:
7477:
7475:
7472:
7470:
7467:
7465:
7462:
7460:
7457:
7455:
7452:
7450:
7447:
7445:
7442:
7440:
7437:
7435:
7432:
7430:
7427:
7425:
7422:
7420:
7417:
7415:
7412:
7411:
7409:
7405:
7397:
7394:
7392:
7389:
7387:
7384:
7382:
7379:
7377:
7374:
7372:
7369:
7367:
7364:
7363:
7362:
7359:
7357:
7354:
7352:
7349:
7347:
7344:
7342:
7339:
7338:
7336:
7332:
7326:
7325:Trophic level
7323:
7321:
7318:
7316:
7313:
7311:
7308:
7306:
7303:
7301:
7298:
7297:
7295:
7293:
7289:
7283:
7282:Phage ecology
7280:
7278:
7275:
7273:
7272:Microbial mat
7270:
7268:
7265:
7263:
7260:
7258:
7255:
7253:
7250:
7248:
7245:
7243:
7240:
7238:
7235:
7233:
7230:
7228:
7227:Bacteriophage
7225:
7223:
7220:
7219:
7217:
7215:
7211:
7205:
7202:
7200:
7197:
7195:
7194:Decomposition
7192:
7190:
7187:
7186:
7184:
7182:
7178:
7172:
7169:
7167:
7164:
7162:
7159:
7157:
7154:
7152:
7149:
7147:
7144:
7142:
7141:Mesopredators
7139:
7137:
7134:
7132:
7129:
7127:
7124:
7122:
7119:
7117:
7114:
7112:
7109:
7107:
7104:
7102:
7099:
7097:
7094:
7092:
7089:
7087:
7086:Apex predator
7084:
7083:
7081:
7079:
7075:
7069:
7066:
7064:
7061:
7059:
7056:
7054:
7051:
7049:
7046:
7044:
7041:
7039:
7036:
7034:
7031:
7029:
7026:
7024:
7021:
7019:
7016:
7014:
7011:
7009:
7006:
7004:
7001:
6999:
6996:
6995:
6993:
6991:
6987:
6981:
6978:
6976:
6973:
6971:
6968:
6966:
6963:
6961:
6958:
6956:
6953:
6951:
6948:
6946:
6943:
6941:
6938:
6936:
6933:
6931:
6928:
6926:
6923:
6921:
6920:Biotic stress
6918:
6916:
6913:
6911:
6908:
6906:
6903:
6901:
6898:
6896:
6893:
6891:
6888:
6887:
6885:
6881:
6876:
6872:
6868:
6861:
6856:
6854:
6849:
6847:
6842:
6841:
6838:
6826:
6823:
6821:
6818:
6816:
6813:
6811:
6808:
6806:
6803:
6802:
6799:
6793:
6790:
6788:
6785:
6783:
6780:
6778:
6775:
6773:
6772:Mesocarnivore
6770:
6768:
6767:Hypocarnivore
6765:
6763:
6760:
6754:
6751:
6750:
6749:
6746:
6744:
6741:
6740:
6739:
6736:
6734:
6731:
6727:
6726:Filter feeder
6724:
6722:
6719:
6717:
6716:Bottom feeder
6714:
6712:
6709:
6707:
6704:
6702:
6699:
6697:
6694:
6692:
6689:
6688:
6687:
6684:
6680:
6677:
6675:
6672:
6670:
6667:
6665:
6664:Apex predator
6662:
6660:
6657:
6656:
6655:
6652:
6651:
6649:
6645:
6639:
6636:
6634:
6631:
6629:
6626:
6624:
6621:
6619:
6616:
6614:
6611:
6609:
6606:
6604:
6601:
6599:
6596:
6594:
6591:
6589:
6586:
6584:
6581:
6579:
6576:
6575:
6573:
6569:
6563:
6560:
6558:
6555:
6554:
6552:
6548:
6542:
6539:
6537:
6534:
6532:
6529:
6527:
6524:
6522:
6519:
6517:
6514:
6512:
6509:
6507:
6504:
6502:
6499:
6497:
6494:
6493:
6491:
6489:
6485:
6480:
6466:
6463:
6461:
6458:
6456:
6453:
6451:
6448:
6447:
6445:
6443:cannibalistic
6441:
6435:
6432:
6430:
6429:Breastfeeding
6427:
6425:
6424:Placentophagy
6422:
6420:
6417:
6415:
6412:
6411:
6409:
6405:
6399:
6396:
6394:
6391:
6389:
6386:
6384:
6381:
6379:
6376:
6374:
6371:
6369:
6366:
6364:
6361:
6359:
6356:
6354:
6351:
6349:
6346:
6344:
6343:Egg predation
6341:
6339:
6336:
6335:
6333:
6329:
6326:
6324:
6320:
6316:
6309:
6304:
6302:
6297:
6295:
6290:
6289:
6286:
6278:
6274:
6270:
6266:
6262:
6258:
6254:
6250:
6246:
6242:
6238:
6234:
6230:
6229:
6224:
6219:
6215:
6211:
6207:
6201:
6197:
6193:
6189:
6188:
6177:
6171:
6164:
6158:
6150:
6146:
6142:
6138:
6134:
6130:
6123:
6115:
6109:
6105:
6104:
6096:
6088:
6087:
6079:
6071:
6067:
6063:
6060:
6059:
6051:
6043:
6042:
6034:
6025:
6017:
6011:
6007:
6000:
5998:
5989:
5985:
5978:
5970:
5966:
5962:
5958:
5954:
5950:
5943:
5936:
5930:
5922:
5918:
5914:
5910:
5903:
5896:(2): 142–146.
5895:
5891:
5884:
5877:
5869:
5865:
5860:
5855:
5851:
5847:
5844:(1582): 1–9.
5843:
5839:
5835:
5828:
5820:
5816:
5811:
5806:
5802:
5798:
5794:
5787:
5773:on 2011-09-05
5769:
5765:
5761:
5757:
5753:
5749:
5745:
5740:
5735:
5731:
5727:
5720:
5713:
5705:
5701:
5696:
5691:
5687:
5683:
5679:
5675:
5671:
5664:
5650:on 2010-07-06
5646:
5642:
5638:
5634:
5630:
5626:
5622:
5618:
5614:
5610:
5606:
5599:
5592:
5578:on 2009-10-25
5574:
5569:
5564:
5560:
5556:
5552:
5548:
5541:
5534:
5525:
5520:
5516:
5512:
5508:
5501:
5493:
5489:
5485:
5481:
5477:
5473:
5469:
5465:
5458:
5450:
5446:
5442:
5438:
5431:
5429:
5420:
5416:
5411:
5406:
5401:
5396:
5392:
5388:
5384:
5380:
5376:
5369:
5367:
5358:
5354:
5349:
5344:
5340:
5336:
5332:
5325:
5316:
5311:
5307:
5303:
5299:
5292:
5290:
5281:
5275:
5271:
5270:
5262:
5248:on 2011-09-28
5244:
5240:
5236:
5232:
5228:
5224:
5220:
5216:
5212:
5208:
5204:
5200:
5196:
5189:
5182:
5180:
5165:on 2012-04-25
5161:
5157:
5153:
5149:
5145:
5141:
5137:
5133:
5129:
5122:
5115:
5101:on 2011-07-24
5097:
5093:
5087:
5080:
5079:
5070:
5062:
5058:
5053:
5052:1969.1/178777
5048:
5043:
5038:
5034:
5030:
5026:
5022:
5018:
5011:
5009:
5000:
4996:
4991:
4986:
4981:
4976:
4972:
4968:
4964:
4960:
4956:
4949:
4947:
4945:
4930:on 2011-07-28
4926:
4922:
4918:
4914:
4910:
4906:
4902:
4898:
4894:
4887:
4880:
4878:
4869:
4865:
4861:
4857:
4850:
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7765:Biodiversity
7642:Allee effect
7381:kelp forests
7334:Example webs
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7199:Detritivores
7038:Organotrophs
7018:Kinetotrophs
6970:Productivity
6792:Trophallaxis
6696:Pivot feeder
6691:Lunge feeder
6669:Egg predator
6557:Phagocytosis
6407:reproductive
6378:Myrmecophagy
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7997:Disturbance
7900:interaction
7722:Recruitment
7652:Depensation
7444:Copiotrophs
7315:Energy flow
7237:Lithotrophy
7181:Decomposers
7161:Planktivore
7136:Insectivore
7126:Heterotroph
7091:Bacterivore
7058:Phototrophs
7008:Chemotrophs
6980:Restoration
6930:Competition
6613:Planktivore
6598:Detritivore
6593:Coprophagia
6583:Bacterivore
6578:Microbivory
6562:Myzocytosis
6521:Nectarivore
6511:Graminivore
6358:Lepidophagy
6353:Insectivore
6348:Hematophagy
5568:10261/40177
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1449:Food system
1220:small world
1065:feeding on
1034:leaf litter
938:taxonomists
835:, (e.g., a
735:zooplankton
608:overgrazing
525:chlorophyll
481:saprotrophs
477:decomposers
427:monophagous
423:Food chains
419:connectance
403:decomposers
396:saprophytic
366:polyphagous
358:respiration
271:topological
212:blue whales
202:, and from
188:microscopic
148:hot springs
72:food chains
8365:Sexecology
7942:Parasitism
7907:Antibiosis
7742:Resistance
7737:Resilience
7627:Population
7547:Camouflage
7499:Oligotroph
7414:Ascendency
7376:intertidal
7366:cold seeps
7320:Food chain
7121:Herbivores
7096:Carnivores
7023:Mixotrophs
6998:Autotrophs
6877:components
6777:Parasitism
6711:Bait balls
6701:Ram feeder
6633:Plastivore
6628:Lithotroph
6618:Saprophagy
6541:Osteophagy
6531:Palynivore
6488:Herbivores
6419:Paedophagy
6393:Spongivore
6383:Ophiophagy
6323:Carnivores
5990:(3): 1–53.
5777:2011-07-05
5654:2011-07-04
5582:2011-07-03
5511:BioScience
5302:BioScience
5252:2011-07-04
5169:2011-06-15
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