Assessing Food Web Structure and Function Using Ecological Interaction Network Approaches and Bioenergetic Modelling

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The approach includes a function that allows users to assess how sensitive the estimated fluxes are to the variability (uncertainty) of specific input parameters

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Draft version

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MARBEFES Deliverable (internal report, evolving methodology)

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Complex

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Trained experts in ecology/natural sciences

Authors:

Marie Nordström, Tiina Salo, Iara Díamela Rodriguez

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Barnes et al. (2018) Energy flux: the link between multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33: 186-197
Delmas et al. (2019) Analysing ecological networks of species interactions. Biological Reviews 94: 16-36
Gauzens et al. (2019) fluxweb: an R package to easily estimate energy fluxes in food webs. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10: 270-279
Kortsch et al. (2021) Disentangling temporal food web dynamics facilitates understanding of ecosystem functioning. Journal of Animal Ecology 90: 1205-1216
Kraufvelin et al. (2026) Warming simplifies marine ecological networks through losses in trophic and non-trophic interactions. Marine Ecology Progress Series 782, 1-18
Nordström & Bonsdorff (2017) Organic enrichment simplifies marine benthic food web structure. Limnology and Oceanography 62: 2179-2188

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