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More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs Public Deposited

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  • Organisms eating each other are only one of many types of well documented and important interactions among species. Other such types include habitat modification, predator interference and facilitation. However, ecological network research has been typically limited to either pure food webs or to networks of only a few (<3) interaction types. The great diversity of non-trophic interactions observed in nature has been poorly addressed by ecologists and largely excluded from network theory. Herein, we propose a conceptual framework that organises this diversity into three main functional classes defined by how they modify specific parameters in a dynamic food web model. This approach provides a path forward for incorporating non-trophic interactions in traditional food web models and offers a new perspective on tackling ecological complexity that should stimulate both theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding the patterns and dynamics of diverse species interactions in nature.
  • Keywords: Ecosystem engineering, Non-trophic interactions, Ecological network, Food web, Interaction modification, Facilitation, Trophic interactions
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  • Kéfi, S., Williams, R. J., Martinez, N. D., Menge, B. A., Blanchette, C. A., Iles, A. C., . . . . (2012). More than a meal… integrating non‐feeding interactions into food webs. Ecology Letters, 15(4), 291-300. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01732.x
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  • Part of SK and ELB s research was funded by a Humboldt fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. A number of grants to SAN and EAW have allowed data collection and experimentation on Chilean rocky shores. Of these, a Fondap Fondecyt 15001-001 (CASEB) and Fondecyt #107335 to SAN and a Fondecyt #1100920 grant to EAW have been instrumental. This international collaboration would not have been possible without support from Rhodes University Fellowship to EAW, and a Fondecyt International Collaboration grant #7100021 to SAN and ELB. OLP received funding as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. UB issupported by the German Research Foundation (BR 2315 ⁄ 13-1). BAM has been supported by grants from NSF, and the AW Mellon, D & L Packard, G & B Moore and W & G Valley Foundations. ACI was supported by these and an NSERC Graduate Fellowship. This is publication #411 from PISCO (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans) supported in part by the D & L Packard and G & B Moore Foundations.
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