ECOLOGY: Food Web Ecology: Playing Jenga and Beyond

Ecology. Food web ecology: playing Jenga and beyond.

Y Food Web Ecology : Playing Jenga and Beyond

quantifiable way to control the quantity of material deposited. Hence, the length of the gap-forming segment can be controlled with great precision. Furthermore, it is easy to prepare wires with more than one gap and with gaps of different lengths. It would be pointless to have a dissolv-able gap between two nondissolvable segments if, upon dissolution, the remaining segments fell apart. Qin et...

Food Microbiology, Molecular Microbial Ecology, Food Ecology

Impact of next generation sequencing techniques in Food Microbiology 1 2 Baltasar Mayo 1 , Caio T. C. C. Rachid 2 , Ángel Alegría 1 , Analy M. O. Leite 2 , Raquel S. 3 Peixoto 2 , and Susana Delgado 1 4 5 Departamento de Microbiología y Bioquímica, Instituto de Productos Lácteos de 6 Asturias (IPLA-CSIC), Paseo Río Linares s/n, 33300-Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain 1 , and 7 Instituto de Microbio...

Barcoding a Quantified Food Web: Crypsis, Concepts, Ecology and Hypotheses

The efficient and effective monitoring of individuals and populations is critically dependent on correct species identification. While this point may seem obvious, identifying the majority of the more than 100 natural enemies involved in the spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana--SBW) food web remains a non-trivial endeavor. Insect parasitoids play a major role in the processes governing the...

Fractal Population Ecology Theory

Abstract Purpose - The aim of this paper is to describe the population ecology theory through fractal thinking, an emergent human operating system that is creative, adaptive, healthy, and evolutionary; furthermore, a parallel is drawn between the population ecology model and the fractal structure. Top-down hierarchies are typically characterized by command and control systems of the authority t...