Observed properties of natural food webs have both important theoretical and important
management implications. Four lowland aquatic food webs were investigated over the …

The early literature on food webs makes few distinctions between local and regional
ecosystems and processes. Leaving aside other problems (Cohen et al., 1990; Winemiller …

Here, we investigate patterns in the size structure of one marine and six freshwater food
webs: that is, how the trophic structure of such ecological networks is governed by the body …

Previous studies suggest that food-web theory has yet to account for major differences in
food-web properties of marine versus other types of ecosystems. We examined this issue by …

Articulating what limits the length of trophic food chains has remained one of the most
enduring challenges in ecology. Mere counts of ecosystem species and transfers have not …

The covariance among a range of 20 network structural properties of food webs plus net
primary productivity was assessed for 14 published food webs using principal components …

We explore patterns of trophic connections between species in the largest and highest‐
quality empirical food webs to date, introducing a new topological property called the link …

Aggregations of biological species on the basis of trophic similarity (trophospecies) are the
basic units of study in food web and ecosystem research, yet little attention has been …

The use of functional traits to describe community structure is a promising approach to
reveal generalities across organisms and ecosystems. Plant ecologists have demonstrated …

This chapter describes research that seeks to characterize and model the structure of food
webs, complex networks of feeding (trophic) interactions among diverse species in …