TY - JOUR A1 - Kefi, Sonia A1 - Berlow, Eric L. A1 - Wieters, Evie A. A1 - Navarrete, Sergio A. A1 - Petchey, Owen L. A1 - Wood, Spencer A. A1 - Boit, Alice A1 - Joppa, Lucas N. A1 - Lafferty, Kevin D. A1 - Williams, Richard J. A1 - Martinez, Neo D. A1 - Menge, Bruce A. A1 - Blanchette, Carol A. A1 - Iles, Alison C. A1 - Brose, Ulrich T1 - More than a meal ... integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs T2 - Ecology letters N2 - Organisms eating each other are only one of many types of well documented and important interactions among species. Other such types include habitat modification, predator interference and facilitation. However, ecological network research has been typically limited to either pure food webs or to networks of only a few (<3) interaction types. The great diversity of non-trophic interactions observed in nature has been poorly addressed by ecologists and largely excluded from network theory. Herein, we propose a conceptual framework that organises this diversity into three main functional classes defined by how they modify specific parameters in a dynamic food web model. This approach provides a path forward for incorporating non-trophic interactions in traditional food web models and offers a new perspective on tackling ecological complexity that should stimulate both theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding the patterns and dynamics of diverse species interactions in nature. KW - Ecological network KW - ecosystem engineering KW - facilitation KW - food web KW - interaction modification KW - non-trophic interactions KW - trophic interactions Y1 - 2012 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/35999 SN - 1461-023X VL - 15 IS - 4 SP - 291 EP - 300 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER -