Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity

被引:492
作者
Thompson, Ross M. [1 ,2 ]
Brose, Ulrich [3 ]
Dunne, Jennifer A. [4 ,7 ]
Hall, Robert O., Jr. [5 ]
Hladyz, Sally [1 ,2 ]
Kitching, Roger L. [6 ]
Martinez, Neo D. [7 ]
Rantala, Heidi [8 ]
Romanuk, Tamara N. [9 ]
Stouffer, Daniel B. [10 ,11 ]
Tylianakis, Jason M. [11 ]
机构
[1] Monash Univ, Australian Ctr Biodivers, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia
[2] Monash Univ, Sch Biol Sci, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia
[3] Univ Gottingen, Dept Biol, D-3400 Gottingen, Germany
[4] Santa Fe Inst, Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA
[5] Univ Wyoming, Dept Zool & Physiol, Laramie, WY 82071 USA
[6] Griffith Univ, Environm Futures Ctr, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia
[7] Pacific Ecoinformat & Computat Ecol Lab, Berkeley, CA USA
[8] So Illinois Univ, Dept Zool, Carbondale, IL 62901 USA
[9] Dalhousie Univ, Dept Biol, Halifax, NS, Canada
[10] CSIC, EBD, Integrat Ecol Grp, E-41080 Seville, Spain
[11] Univ Canterbury, Sch Biol Sci, Christchurch 1, New Zealand
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; ECOSYSTEM SIZE; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CHAIN LENGTH; BODY-SIZE; COMMUNITIES; DIVERSITY; STABILITY; DYNAMICS; STREAMS;
D O I
10.1016/j.tree.2012.08.005
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
The global biodiversity crisis concerns not only unprecedented loss of species within communities, but also related consequences for ecosystem function. Community ecology focuses on patterns of species richness and community composition, whereas ecosystem ecology focuses on fluxes of energy and materials. Food webs provide a quantitative framework to combine these approaches and unify the study of biodiversity and ecosystem function. We summarise the progression of food-web ecology and the challenges in using the food-web approach. We identify five areas of research where these advances can continue, and be applied to global challenges. Finally, we describe what data are needed in the next generation of food-web studies to reconcile the structure and function of biodiversity.
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页码:689 / 697
页数:9
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