Appendix A. Characterization of the 14 studied food webs.
TABLE A1. Characterization of the 14 studied food webs (further details in Dunne et al. 2002, 2004).
Food web |
Coordinates (latitude, longitude) |
Size class† |
Description |
Coachella Valley |
33.4N 116W |
3 |
S. California, USA, aggregated desert food web |
El Verde Rainforest |
18.3N 65.8W |
3 |
Puerto Rico, hillside rainforest on larger Caribbean island |
St Martin |
18N 63W |
3 |
Lizards and birds on semi-arid rocky slopes of one of the Upwind Antilles islands |
Bridgebrook Lake |
44.2N 74W |
2 |
Upstate New York, USA, pelagic foodweb of unfertile Adirondacks lake |
Little Rock Lake |
45.6N 89.4W |
2 |
Wisconsin, USA, detailed, pelagic and benthic foodweb components of productive lake |
Lake Tahoe |
39.1N 120W |
4 |
California, USA, pelagic food web of large, deep, unfertile lake inside Sierra Nevada |
Skipwith Pond |
53.5N 0.6W |
1 |
Benthic invertebrates in small productive shallow pond in NE England, United Kingdom. |
Stony Stream |
45S 170E |
1 |
Benthic invertebrates of a small, third order stream draining native tussock grassland on Southern Island, New Zealand. |
Chesapeake Bay |
37N 77W |
5 |
Mainly pelagic components of a large estuary in Eastern USA, with a focus on fish |
St Marks Estuary |
30N 84W |
3 |
Seagrass habitat with benthic and pelagic organisms in Northern Florida, USA |
Ythan Estuary |
57.2N 1.6W |
2 |
Birds, fish, benthos and primary producers in NE Scottish estuary, United Kingdom |
Benguela Shelf |
27.5S 11.3E |
5 |
Pelagic of large open shelf offshore Namibia and Western South Africa, Southern Atlantic |
Caribbean Reef |
18N 65W |
2 |
Benthos and fish of small coral reef on the Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands shelf, tropical Western Atlantic |
Northeastern US Shelf |
42N 67W |
5 |
Pelagic and fish of the open shelf off Northeastern USA |
† Areal extent of the habitat or food web studied was approximated using a scale of 5 categories: 1 (< 1 ha), 2 (< 1 km2), 3 (< 100 km2), 4 (<10000 km2), 5 (>10000 km2)
LITERATURE CITED
Dunne, J. A., R. J. Williams, and N. D. Martinez. 2002. Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance. Ecology Letters 5:558–567.
Dunne, J. A., R. J. Williams, and N. D. Martinez. 2004. Network structure and robustness of marine food webs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 273:291–302.