@article{7a2929d575d44a10b8958d7142e2f14c,
title = "Food webs: Reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity",
abstract = "The global biodiversity crisis concerns not only unprecedented loss of species within communities, but also related consequences for ecosystem function. Community ecology focuses on patterns of species richness and community composition, whereas ecosystem ecology focuses on fluxes of energy and materials. Food webs provide a quantitative framework to combine these approaches and unify the study of biodiversity and ecosystem function. We summarise the progression of food-web ecology and the challenges in using the food-web approach. We identify five areas of research where these advances can continue, and be applied to global challenges. Finally, we describe what data are needed in the next generation of food-web studies to reconcile the structure and function of biodiversity.",
author = "Thompson, {Ross M.} and Ulrich Brose and Dunne, {Jennifer A.} and Hall, {Robert O.} and Sally Hladyz and Kitching, {Roger L.} and Martinez, {Neo D.} and Heidi Rantala and Romanuk, {Tamara N.} and Stouffer, {Daniel B.} and Tylianakis, {Jason M.}",
note = "Funding Information: The GlobalWeb retreat (Melbourne 2011) was fully funded by Monash University via a Monash Research Accelerator grant to Ross Thompson. Ross Thompson is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT110100957). Jennifer Dunne and Neo Martinez were supported by NSF DBI-1048302. Ulrich Brose was supported by the German Research Foundation (BR 2315/13), and Jason Tylianakis is supported by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship. Daniel Stouffer was supported by a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaci{\'o}n (MICINN), Spain. Tamara Romanuk is supported by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). This paper was greatly improved through the comments of Guy Woodward, Paul Craze, and three anonymous reviewers.",
year = "2012",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1016/j.tree.2012.08.005",
language = "English",
volume = "27",
pages = "689--697",
journal = "Trends in Ecology and Evolution",
issn = "0169-5347",
publisher = "Elsevier Ltd",
number = "12",
}