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This occurs because incoming species are mostly highly generalist fish, which add many new links to the web. Tide pools, however, add not only diversity but also complexity. Webs were dominated by intermediate species, with the proportion of top consumers fluctuating throughout the tidal cycle, being lowest during low tide and highest at high tide, due to the incoming larger vertebrate predators. Consumer taxa outnumbered resource taxa, except at low tide when pools are present. Mean trophic level was lowest at low tide (2.3) and highest at high tide with pools (2.6). Omnivory was high and showed little change. “Chain”, the number of links connecting top to basal species, was stable but low. This implies that disturbance can rapidly travel bottom-up or top-down through predator-prey links. The increased connectance given by the addition of tide pools likely increases robustness to disturbances, an important feature in coastal areas so often impacted by human action.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50559,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Complexity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Changing webs—Variation of complex networks over a tidal cycle in an intertidal rocky reef\",\"authors\":\"Catarina Vinagre , Vanessa Mendonça\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.ecocom.2023.101060\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><p>Incorporating temporal variation in models is one of the most important challenges in food web research. One of the environments where time causes profound changes is the intertidal zone, where the immersion-emersion cycle drastically changes the abiotic and biotic conditions. Intertidal rocky shores have been intensively studied, however the variation in the complex food web network that occurs during a tidal cycle remains undescribed. Highly resolved food web networks were assembled for an intertidal reef depicting the food web during low and high tide, and with and without tide pools. It was concluded that high tide adds new species to the web, but it does not add complexity since network connectance was not changed. This occurs because incoming species are mostly highly generalist fish, which add many new links to the web. Tide pools, however, add not only diversity but also complexity. Webs were dominated by intermediate species, with the proportion of top consumers fluctuating throughout the tidal cycle, being lowest during low tide and highest at high tide, due to the incoming larger vertebrate predators. Consumer taxa outnumbered resource taxa, except at low tide when pools are present. Mean trophic level was lowest at low tide (2.3) and highest at high tide with pools (2.6). Omnivory was high and showed little change. “Chain”, the number of links connecting top to basal species, was stable but low. This implies that disturbance can rapidly travel bottom-up or top-down through predator-prey links. 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Changing webs—Variation of complex networks over a tidal cycle in an intertidal rocky reef
Incorporating temporal variation in models is one of the most important challenges in food web research. One of the environments where time causes profound changes is the intertidal zone, where the immersion-emersion cycle drastically changes the abiotic and biotic conditions. Intertidal rocky shores have been intensively studied, however the variation in the complex food web network that occurs during a tidal cycle remains undescribed. Highly resolved food web networks were assembled for an intertidal reef depicting the food web during low and high tide, and with and without tide pools. It was concluded that high tide adds new species to the web, but it does not add complexity since network connectance was not changed. This occurs because incoming species are mostly highly generalist fish, which add many new links to the web. Tide pools, however, add not only diversity but also complexity. Webs were dominated by intermediate species, with the proportion of top consumers fluctuating throughout the tidal cycle, being lowest during low tide and highest at high tide, due to the incoming larger vertebrate predators. Consumer taxa outnumbered resource taxa, except at low tide when pools are present. Mean trophic level was lowest at low tide (2.3) and highest at high tide with pools (2.6). Omnivory was high and showed little change. “Chain”, the number of links connecting top to basal species, was stable but low. This implies that disturbance can rapidly travel bottom-up or top-down through predator-prey links. The increased connectance given by the addition of tide pools likely increases robustness to disturbances, an important feature in coastal areas so often impacted by human action.
期刊介绍:
Ecological Complexity is an international journal devoted to the publication of high quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of biocomplexity in the environment, theoretical ecology, and special issues on topics of current interest. The scope of the journal is wide and interdisciplinary with an integrated and quantitative approach. The journal particularly encourages submission of papers that integrate natural and social processes at appropriately broad spatio-temporal scales.
Ecological Complexity will publish research into the following areas:
• All aspects of biocomplexity in the environment and theoretical ecology
• Ecosystems and biospheres as complex adaptive systems
• Self-organization of spatially extended ecosystems
• Emergent properties and structures of complex ecosystems
• Ecological pattern formation in space and time
• The role of biophysical constraints and evolutionary attractors on species assemblages
• Ecological scaling (scale invariance, scale covariance and across scale dynamics), allometry, and hierarchy theory
• Ecological topology and networks
• Studies towards an ecology of complex systems
• Complex systems approaches for the study of dynamic human-environment interactions
• Using knowledge of nonlinear phenomena to better guide policy development for adaptation strategies and mitigation to environmental change
• New tools and methods for studying ecological complexity