Food Web Ecology -- individual life-histories and ecological processes shape complex communities
Popular Abstract in English A food web is a network diagram that describes which species that eat each other in nature. Such networks in marine environments e.g. show that cod eat herring, sprat, and sandeel - and that these eat numerous other species. Understanding of these relationships is a fundamental scientific problem, which can be used to assess the consequences for the stocks when we e.g. This thesis sets out a food web framework for size-structured populations. The framework enables an ecological approach to food web modelling as the individual life-history from birth, through maturation, and ultimately death is explicitly resolved with the use of bioenergetics based on individual body size. Each population resolves size-structure through a size-spectrum containing the individual
