The Structure of Parasites in Food Webs

ORAL

Abstract

Using the recent food web data, we investigate how parasites are connected to the rest of the web and see how they differ from random connection. To model these differences in a simple static model, we explore several approaches to extending the highly successful niche model to include parasites.

–

Authors

  • Christopher Warren

  • Mercedes Pascual

    • University of Michigan

  • Kevin Lafferty

  • Armand Kuris

    • University of California, Santa Barbara