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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
More than a meal... integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs
Ecology Letters, Volume 15, No. 4, Year 2012
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Organisms eating each other are only one of many types of well documented and important interactions among species. Other such types include habitat modification, predator interference and facilitation. However, ecological network research has been typically limited to either pure food webs or to networks of only a few (<3) interaction types. The great diversity of non-trophic interactions observed in nature has been poorly addressed by ecologists and largely excluded from network theory. Herein, we propose a conceptual framework that organises this diversity into three main functional classes defined by how they modify specific parameters in a dynamic food web model. This approach provides a path forward for incorporating non-trophic interactions in traditional food web models and offers a new perspective on tackling ecological complexity that should stimulate both theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding the patterns and dynamics of diverse species interactions in nature. © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS.
Authors & Co-Authors
Kéfi, Sonia
Germany, Gottingen
Georg-august-universität Göttingen
France, Montpellier
Institut Des Sciences de L’evolution de Montpellier
Berlow, Eric L.
United States, Merced
Uc Merced
United States, Berkeley
Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab
United States, Reston
United States Geological Survey
Wieters, Evie A.
Chile, Santiago
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
South Africa, Grahamstown
Rhodes University
Navarrete, Sergio A.
Chile, Santiago
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Petchey, Owen L.
United Kingdom, Sheffield
The University of Sheffield
Switzerland, Zurich
Universität Zürich
Wood, Spencer A.
United States, Palo Alto
Stanford University
Boit, Alice
Germany, Potsdam
Universität Potsdam
Joppa, Lucas N.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Lafferty, Kevin D.
United States, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
Williams, Richard J.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Martinez, Neo D.
United States, Berkeley
Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab
Menge, Bruce A.
United States, Corvallis
Oregon State University
Blanchette, Carol A.
United States, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
Iles, Alison C.
United States, Corvallis
Oregon State University
Brose, Ulrich
Germany, Gottingen
Georg-august-universität Göttingen
Statistics
Citations: 340
Authors: 15
Affiliations: 14
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01732.x
ISSN:
1461023X
e-ISSN:
14610248
Research Areas
Food Security