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New paper: Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs
Roopnarine, P. D. 2009. Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs. in G. Dietl and K. Flessa, eds., Conservation Paleobiology, The Paleontological Society Papers, 15: 195-220. Find the paper her… more →
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New paper: Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs
proopnarine wrote 1 month ago: Roopnarine, P. D. 2009. Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs. in G. Dietl and K. Flessa, … more →
Power law confirmed
proopnarine wrote 1 month ago: Species-level trophic link distributionOkay, this post just disappeared, so let’s try again. T … more →
Coral reef trophic levels, & update
proopnarine wrote 1 month ago: Guild-level trophic link distribution Spent a great week at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Soc … more →
Coral reef species link distribution
proopnarine wrote 2 months ago: Species-level trophic link distribution. The data presented in the previous post examined in-link or … more →
Coral reef food web II
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proopnarine wrote 2 months ago: Trophic link distribution What sort of network is the coral reef food web? In other words, how are t … more →
Interaction (edge) strength and compensation
proopnarine wrote 5 months ago: There continues to be a lack of clarity of the role of interaction strengths in stabilizing ecologic … more →
Corals, algae and space
proopnarine wrote 7 months ago: A new project involves working with the CEG model and coral reef communities. The main goal is an in … more →
Network equivalence
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proopnarine wrote 9 months ago: The objective here is to establish the degree of similarity between successive communities, in spite … more →
Trophic network probability
proopnarine wrote 10 months ago: Given any species level topology where represents edges or links, and represents vertices or species … more →
And the answer is...
proopnarine wrote 10 months ago: The number of species-level food webs, or variations of the community (such as the web shown in the … more →
Size of a network space
proopnarine wrote 10 months ago: One possible food web for Late Miocene shallow marine community, Dominican Republic. The metanetwork … more →
Prey dynamics
proopnarine wrote 10 months ago: The figure here is very similar to the one in the previous post, but these results are for the guild … more →
Lighting up an ecosystem
proopnarine wrote 10 months ago: One of the final pieces needed to explain the critical/threshold point in a bottom-up CEG perturbati … more →
Tipping point II
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proopnarine wrote 11 months ago: Red ellipses represent the two threshold points. The story so far: We have a food web of a shallow c … more →
Tipping point
proopnarine wrote 11 months ago: Transition point refers to the perturbation magnitude at which there is a rapid or nearly discontinu … more →
Progress
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proopnarine wrote 11 months ago: Ah, finally back to work. The lungs seem to cooperating again, and while not 100%, boy, it felt good … more →
Three paths to network collapse
proopnarine wrote 11 months ago: There are three responses to bottom-up perturbation that have been observed in both the models and s … more →
Nonlinear cascades
proopnarine wrote 11 months ago: All the simulations described so far are of bottom-up perturbations to the basal level producer guil … more →
Allee effects
proopnarine wrote 11 months ago: This is a very nice and detailed explanation of Allee Effects, a summary term for (mostly) stochasti … more →
