Trophic Ecology

Trophic ecology is the subdiscipline of ecology that examines feeding relationships, food web structure, and energy transfer mechanisms among organisms organized at different trophic levels within ecological communities and ecosystems.

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5.3K

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Ecology

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Bottom-up ControlConsumer-resource DynamicsEcological StoichiometryEnergy FlowFood Chain DynamicsFood Web StructureFood WebsPrimary ProductionResource PartitioningSecondary Production

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USING STABLE ISOTOPES TO ESTIMATE TROPHIC POSITION: MODELS, METHODS, AND ASSUMPTIONS

David M. Post · Ecology · 2002 · 6.3K citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Freshwater Ecology +15

Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity

Robert T. Paine · The American Naturalist · 1966 · 5.3K citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Marine Biology +17

Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers

Clive G. Jones, John H. Lawton, Moshe Shachak · Oikos · 1994 · 4.9K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Ecology +12

Influence of diet on the distribution of carbon isotopes in animals

Michael J. DeNiro, Samuel Epstein · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 1978 · 4.8K citations

Life Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, Zoology +12

Fishing Down Marine Food Webs

Daniel Pauly, Villy Christensen, Anne Johanne Tang Dalsgaard et al. · Science · 1998 · 4.7K citations

Life Sciences, Fisheries, Marine Sciences +15

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Keith A. Hobson
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada
89 publications · 9.3K citations
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Stefan Scheu
University of Göttingen, Germany
69 publications · 6.8K citations
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Stephen R. Carpenter
University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
62 publications · 15.2K citations
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Ulrich Brose
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Germany
54 publications · 7.8K citations
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James F. Kitchell
University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
49 publications · 13.4K citations
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Ecology
1.1K publications · 153.3K citations
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Limnology and Oceanography
777 publications · 86.7K citations
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Marine Ecology Progress Series
MEPS · 1.2K publications · 85K citations
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Oecologia
728 publications · 56.6K citations
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Oikos
668 publications · 55.6K citations
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See also Trophic Ecology
Food Web Structure	Intraguild Predation Ecological Networks Connectance Index Trophic Levels
Energy Transfer	Energy Flow Ecological Pyramids Ecosystem Trophic Transfer Efficiency Photosynthesis Energy Assimilation Efficiency
Species Interactions	Trophic Interactions Non-trophic Interactions Plant-herbivore Interactions Competition Models Lotka-volterra Dynamics Plant Facilitation
Diet Analysis	Stable Isotope Probing Stable Isotope Analysis Compound-specific Isotope Analysis Fatty Acid Recognition Gut Content Analysis
Ecosystem Dynamics	Consumer-resource Interactions Biodiversity Insurance Hypothesis Trophic Levels Ecological Resilience Alternative Stable States