@article{KefiBerlowWietersetal.2012,
  author    = {Kefi, Sonia and Berlow, Eric L. and Wieters, Evie A. and Navarrete, Sergio A. and Petchey, Owen L. and Wood, Spencer A. and Boit, Alice and Joppa, Lucas N. and Lafferty, Kevin D. and Williams, Richard J. and Martinez, Neo D. and Menge, Bruce A. and Blanchette, Carol A. and Iles, Alison C. and Brose, Ulrich},
  title     = {More than a meal ... integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs},
  series = {Ecology letters},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {Ecology letters},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {1461-023X},
  doi       = {10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01732.x},
  pages     = {291 -- 300},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BoitMartinezWilliamsetal.2012,
  author    = {Boit, Alice and Martinez, Neo D. and Williams, Richard J. and Gaedke, Ursula},
  title     = {Mechanistic theory and modelling of complex food-web dynamics in Lake Constance},
  series = {Ecology letters},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {Ecology letters},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {1461-023X},
  doi       = {10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01777.x},
  pages     = {594 -- 602},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Mechanistic understanding of consumer-resource dynamics is critical to predicting the effects of global change on ecosystem structure, function and services. Such understanding is severely limited by mechanistic models inability to reproduce the dynamics of multiple populations interacting in the field. We surpass this limitation here by extending general consumer-resource network theory to the complex dynamics of a specific ecosystem comprised by the seasonal biomass and production patterns in a pelagic food web of a large, well-studied lake. We parameterised our allometric trophic network model of 24 guilds and 107 feeding relationships using the lakes food web structure, initial spring biomasses and body-masses. Adding activity respiration, the detrital loop, minimal abiotic forcing, prey resistance and several empirically observed rates substantially increased the model's fit to the observed seasonal dynamics and the size-abundance distribution. This process illuminates a promising approach towards improving food-web theory and dynamic models of specific habitats.},
  language  = {en}
}