{"id":5845,"date":"2017-09-21T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:17:16","slug":"the-dynamics-of-food-webs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-dynamics-of-food-webs\/","title":{"rendered":"The dynamics of food webs <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research proposes a model to explain how simple food webs are formed within a community. A food web links each species with its predators and prey, but it&#8217;s not clear how any particular association emerges from a wide range of possible webs. In the present study, researchers describe a principle of mutual replenishment, which applies to pairs of food webs that can be transformed into one another by invasion or extinction of a species. These findings can help predict relationships within communities in the long run, as the shape of the food web affects the dynamics of an ecosystem as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highwire-citation-author first has-tooltip hasTooltip\" data-delta=\"0\" data-hasqtip=\"1\">Graham Bell<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"highwire-citation-author has-tooltip hasTooltip\" data-delta=\"1\" data-hasqtip=\"0\">\u00c9tienne Fortier-Dubois<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graham Bell, Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:graham.bell@mcgill.ca\" target=\"_blank\">graham.bell@mcgill.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/284\/1862\/20171463\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in<em> Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em> on September 13, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research proposes a model to explain how simple food webs are formed within a community. A food web links each species with its predators and prey, but it&#8217;s not clear how any particular association emerges from a wide range of possible webs. In the present study, researchers describe a principle of mutual replenishment, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3163,3070,3118],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-food-webs","tag-population-dynamics","tag-predator-prey-relationship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1wh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5846,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions\/5846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}