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Food Webs Augmented With Additional Data: Structure and Dynamics

Food Webs Augmented With Additional Data: Structure and Dynamics. Daniel C. Reuman, Rockefeller University, New York, U.S.A. Joel E. Cohen, Rockefeller University and Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. 1. 3. 3. 12. Networks and augmented networks. 323. 12. 14. 2. 5. 1. 0.5. 0. 8.

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Food Webs Augmented With Additional Data: Structure and Dynamics

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  1. Food Webs Augmented With Additional Data: Structure and Dynamics Daniel C. Reuman, Rockefeller University, New York, U.S.A. Joel E. Cohen, Rockefeller University and Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.

  2. 1 3 3 12 Networks and augmented networks 323 12 14 2 5 1 0.5 0 8 7.6 1.2 6 19 0.6 14 11 8 33 20

  3. Augmented food web: M,N-web • Mi = average body mass of species i • Ni = population density of species i Species 1 (M1, N1) Species 3 (M3, N3) Species 2 (M2, N2) Species 5 (M5, N5) Species 4 (M4, N4)

  4. Examples of Real Augmented Food Webs

  5. Tuesday Lake, Michigan • Pelagic community only • 1984: 25 phytoplankton, 22 zooplankton, 3 fish species • Similar data for 1986 • Complete food web, average body mass (M) and population density (N) for each species in each year

  6. Tuesday Lake, 1984 Cohen Jonsson, Carpenter PNAS, 2003 Fish species Zooplankton species Phytoplankton species

  7. Tuesday Lake food web, body mass & pop. density 1984 Circles = phytoplankton Squares = zooplankton Diamonds = fish M = body mass (kg) Jonsson, Cohen, Carpenter, Advances in Ecological Research 2005 N = population density (individuals/m3)

  8. Broadstone Stream, UK http://www.biology.qmul.ac.uk/research/staff/hildrew/guy.htm Data are available from other systems.

  9. Why add data to food webs? • Traditional food web directed graphs have sampling problems • Martinez, Ecological Monographs, 1991 • Martinez et al., Ecology, 1999 • The food web model is unrealistic • Predator-prey relationships differ • Species with the same prey and same predators differ

  10. Length of links d1 Define: Length of link = d1 + d2 Predator log(M) d2 Prey log(N) Reuman and Cohen, Journal of Animal Ecology, 2004

  11. Frequency distribution of link length Link lengths were normally distributed. Lengths of all ordered pairs of species were not normally distributed. 1984

  12. Niche and Cascade Models • Models of food web directed graphs • Given a list of species, they select links to emulate the structure of real webs

  13. Failures of the Niche and Cascade Models • When combined with the M and N data of Tuesday Lake, these models produced webs with non-normal link length distributions • M,N structure of food webs interacts with the network structure • M,N structure illuminates network structure

  14. Better models • To reproduce normal link length distributions, assume: • species are divided into 3 body-mass ranked functional groups that can only eat lower groups (e.g., plants, herbivores, carnivores) • species do not eat other species that are too much smaller (perceptual limit) • Complete models of M,N-web structure should be proposed and tested

  15. M,N-web structure varies among communities of different types

  16. Describing M,N structure with linear models For 162 local ecological communities, we tested whether data satisfied the statistical assumptions of standard linear models relating log(M) and log(N).

  17. Ecosystem types • The 162 communities were of nine types, including: • shores of a lake • inside pitcher plants • 7 types of soil community (farms, forest, fields)

  18. Results • Communities of some types were better-described by linear models than communities of other types • M,N-web structure varies by ecosystem type • The causes of this structural variation should be studied

  19. Use of M,N-webs: biomass flux along trophic links

  20. What is flux? Given a food web and a prey, predator pair … Predator How much biomass does this predator eat of this prey per unit time? Want “flux” for all prey-predator pairs Prey

  21. What biomass flux occurred along 269 trophic links in 1984, 241 trophic links in 1986?

  22. Fluxes are hard to measure • Even for a single prey-predator pair • Harder still to measure all fluxes We want a model Should estimate flux for all trophic links using M,N-web data

  23. Example: Metabolic Action Model If i = prey and j = predator,

  24. Why estimate flux?Application: animal behavior Predator 1/2 1/2 Null-model flux (kg/day) 1/4 3/4 Measured flux (kg/day) Prey 2 Prey 1 Why the deviation from expectation?

  25. Other possible applications • Conservation • Toxin concentrations going up the food web • Dynamics and stability of food webs

  26. Future • Network models of food web structure that include more information: • An M distribution for each species • Stoichiometric data for each species • Distributions describing predation events • Empirical biomass flux measurements to compare to the model

  27. Thank you!Questions? References: Reuman & Cohen, Trophic links’ length and slope in the Tuesday Lake food web with species’ body mass and numerical abundance. 2004. Journal of Animal Ecology 73, 852-866. Reuman & Cohen, Estimating relative energy fluxes using the food web, species abundance, and body size. 2005. Advances in Ecological Research 36,137-182. Reuman & Cohen, Allometry of body size and abundance in 166 food webs: tests of the standard linear model. In prep. Email: reumand@rockefeller.edu

  28. Toy example of an augmented network: friendship networks 40yrs 75yrs 1 hr/wk 28yrs 5 hrs/wk 0.25 hrs/wk 0.5 hrs/wk 50yrs 32yrs

  29. Toy example of an augmented network: computer networks 1.7 GHz 1.4 GHz One could include the clock speed 4.0 GHz 3.2 GHz One could also include measures of the network traffic along each edge 1.2 GHz 2.2 GHz

  30. Broadstone Stream, UK Predator mass > prey mass Predator mass < prey mass log10 mean individual body mass (ug dry mass) log10 pop. density (individuals / m2) Woodward, Speirs, Hildrew, Advances in Ecological Research, 2005

  31. We also tested our 8 models with other data, too Lake Neuchatel webs: Carolin Banasek-Richter and Marie-France Cattin Blandenier Dutch soil webs: Christian Mulder Preliminary indirect testing shows the Metabolic Action Model is better than the other models for these systems, too.

  32. Other M,N-webs data sets • Tuesday Lake, Michigan, U.S.A.: freshwater pelagic • Broadstone Stream, England: freshwater benthic • Lake Neuchatel riparian zone, Switzerland • Inquiline communities in pitcher plants, Florida, U.S.A. • Ythan Estuary, Scotland • Caribbean marine food web • Various soil food webs

  33. Why estimate flux?Application: conservation • A model can provide • guesses on: • which prey species • is most important for conservation • 2) which predator is • most destructive Pred. 1 Pred. 2 9/10 1/10 Threatened species 1/10 1/10 8/10 Prey 1 Prey 2 Prey 3

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