Trophic and non-trophic connections and their role in the stability of Potter Cove food web

SALINAS, VANESA; SARAVIA LEONARDO A.; MOMO, FERNANDO R.

Cambridge

Workshop; First SOOS Western Antarctic Peninsula Meeeting; 2017

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

A food web represents relationships between organisms that eat each one to another. However, ecological interactions of coexisting species involve much more than just feeding. Within an ecosystem, species interact with each other in many different ways including predation, competition and facilitation. These interactions can be modelled as trophic and non-trophic networks which constitute a group of links that mediates ecological communities response to perturbations?, such as exploitation or climate change.