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Coral reef fish food webs2 comments

proopnarine wrote 3 weeks ago: Reef fish food web, Greater Antilles Here are a couple of renderings of the vertebrate-only componen … more →

Tags: visualization, Coral Reefs, extinction, Network theory, corals, Coral Reef, real world networks, trophic level

Jamaican coral reef I

proopnarine wrote 1 month ago: Fig. 1 - Species-level trophic link distribution for entire coral reef. We’ve examined records … more →

Tags: Coral Reefs, extinction, Networks, connectance, Network theory, Coral Reef, link distribution

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 →

Tags: CEG theory, scientific models, tipping point, Topological extinction, Cascades, Competition, connectance, edge strength, extinction

Power law confirmed

proopnarine wrote 1 month ago: Species-level trophic link distributionOkay, this post just disappeared, so let’s try again. T … more →

Tags: CEG theory, Coral Reefs, Networks, Network theory, corals, Coral Reef, Power Law

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 →

Tags: CEG theory, Coral Reefs, Coral Reef, corals, Network theory, Networks, Power Law, trophic level

108. Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs by Patricia Lauber

Deeanna wrote 2 months ago: Retell: This book explains how energy flows within food chains and food webs.  It also describes the … more →

Tags: Picture Books, female authors, nonfiction, Envisionment, interpretation, Content Area, determining importance, text features, animals

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 →

Tags: CEG theory, Coral Reefs, Networks, Network theory, corals, Coral Reef, Power Law, Small World Networks, real world networks

Coral reef food web II2 comments

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 →

Tags: CEG theory, Coral Reefs, Networks, Network theory, corals, Coral Reef, robustness, Power Law, Small World Networks

Coral reef food web I1 comment

proopnarine wrote 2 months ago: Caribbean coral reef food web I’ve been compiling data for a Caribbean coral reef food web. Th … more →

Tags: Coral Reefs, connectance, Coral Reef, corals, Networks

Global Warming Warps Marine Food Webs1 comment

Danielle Meitiv wrote 3 months ago: (I’m working hard on my fiction writing so I’m taking a bit of a break from the blog. Ju … more →

Tags: climate change, Ocean, Global Warming, Oceans, Environment, Marine Science, Science

Food web robustness

proopnarine wrote 4 months ago: Jennifer Dunne, in a recent paper (Dunne et al., 2009), defines the structural robustness of a food … more →

Tags: robustness, connectance

CLLAMMecology - Food webs in the Coorong

Environment Institute wrote 4 months ago: A/Professor Justin Brookes, Director of the Water Research Centre at the University of Adelaide pres … more →

Tags: News, Podcast, cllamm, Water Research Centre, Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, Justin Brookes, coorong

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 →

Tags: CEG theory, tipping point, corals, Coral Reef, Competition

Survival of an insect pest depends on when the host tree buds; Fry et al., 2009

pathdigger wrote 8 months ago: Journal: Ecological Entomology Location: ?, Canada The Elm Spanworm hatching boom is 2 weeks after t … more →

Tags: Trees, Forestry, larvae, Pests, Insects, Eggs, Acer pseudoplatanus, leaves, Herbivory

Another view

proopnarine wrote 10 months ago: This is another rendering of the San Francisco Bay food web (see below) using a different drawing al … more →

Tags: visualization, Networks, Network theory, Modeling

San Francisco Bay community food web1 comment

proopnarine wrote 10 months ago: Now that’s complex! This is a rendering of the metanetwork for the San Francisco Bay food web. … more →

Tags: visualization, Networks, connectance

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 →

Tags: CEG theory, Networks, Network theory

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 →

Tags: CEG theory, Networks, Network theory

Tipping point II1 comment

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 →

Tags: Topological extinction, CEG theory, tipping point, extinction, Networks, Nonlinear, Simulations, Cascades, top-down cascade


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