We analyze the properties of seven community food webs from a variety of environments, including freshwater, marine-freshwater interfaces, and terrestrial environments. We uncover quantitative unifying patterns that describe the properties of the diverse trophic webs considered and suggest that statistical physics concepts such as scaling and universality may be useful in the description of ecosystems. Specifically, we find that several quantities characterizing these diverse food webs obey functional forms that are universal across the different environments considered. The empirical results are in remarkable agreement with the analytical solution of a recently proposed model for food webs.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Camacho2002
%A Camacho, Juan
%A Guimerà, Roger
%A Amaral, Luís A. Nunes
%D 2002
%I American Physical Society
%J Physical Review Letters
%K foodwebs graphs motifs networks patterns
%N 22
%P 228102
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.228102
%T Robust Patterns in Food Web Structure
%V 88
%X We analyze the properties of seven community food webs from a variety of environments, including freshwater, marine-freshwater interfaces, and terrestrial environments. We uncover quantitative unifying patterns that describe the properties of the diverse trophic webs considered and suggest that statistical physics concepts such as scaling and universality may be useful in the description of ecosystems. Specifically, we find that several quantities characterizing these diverse food webs obey functional forms that are universal across the different environments considered. The empirical results are in remarkable agreement with the analytical solution of a recently proposed model for food webs.
@article{Camacho2002,
abstract = {We analyze the properties of seven community food webs from a variety of environments, including freshwater, marine-freshwater interfaces, and terrestrial environments. We uncover quantitative unifying patterns that describe the properties of the diverse trophic webs considered and suggest that statistical physics concepts such as scaling and universality may be useful in the description of ecosystems. Specifically, we find that several quantities characterizing these diverse food webs obey functional forms that are universal across the different environments considered. The empirical results are in remarkable agreement with the analytical solution of a recently proposed model for food webs.},
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author = {Camacho, Juan and Guimerà, Roger and Amaral, Luís A. Nunes},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a7fb64589641336d00d32fa4ece24eb7/rincedd},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.228102},
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journal = {Physical Review Letters},
keywords = {foodwebs graphs motifs networks patterns},
number = 22,
pages = 228102,
publisher = {American Physical Society},
timestamp = {2011-06-14T14:44:12.000+0200},
title = {Robust Patterns in Food Web Structure},
volume = 88,
year = 2002
}