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Adaptations In A Hierarchical Food Web Of Southeastern Lake Michigan, Ann E. Krause, Ken A. Frank, Michael L. Jones, Thomas F. Nalepa, Richard P. Barbiero, Charles P. Madenjian, Megan Agy, Marlene S. Evans, William W. Taylor, Doran M. Mason, Nancy J. Leonard

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Two issues in ecological network theory are: (1) how to construct an ecological network model and (2) how do entire networks (as opposed to individual species) adapt to changing conditions? We present a novel method for constructing an ecological network model for the food web of southeastern Lake Michigan (USA) and we identify changes in key system properties that are large relative to their uncertainty as this ecological network adapts fromone time point to a second time point in response to multiple perturbations. To construct our foodweb for southeastern Lake Michigan,we followed the list of seven recommendations outlined in Cohen …