Emergence of food webs with a multi-trophic hierarchical structure driven by nonlinear trait-matching.

Abstract excerpt

Food webs are a central subject in community ecology, because consumption supports the flow of matter through the system, which is at the base of many of its functions. Identifying the mechanisms that are at the origin of food web structure is useful, e.g., for restoration purposes. We investigated the extent to which trait-matching, which contributes to defining the strength of trophic interactions, can cause...

Topics

• Food Chain
• Animals
• Models, Biological
• Population Dynamics
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Biological Evolution
• Phenotype