Trophic Biogeograhy and Metaweb

TROPHIC BIOGEOGRAPHY & METAWEB

Studies on spatially structured food webs, are complex because they incorporate both trophic and spatial structure as the network of species interactions is no longer strictly local, and depends on the structure and composition of neighboring locations. They are deeply rooted into the seminal work by Huffaker (Huffaker 1958) and have developed into an area that can perhaps be called food web metacommunity ecology (Amarasekare 2008). This area seeks to link population dynamics with the spatial effects of dispersal and patch heterogeneity on community phenomena such as species coexistence, species diversity, and community stability. More recently have the spatial trophic structure been incorporated at the biogeographical scale into the trophic theory of island biogeography (Gravel et al. 2011) which open new perspective to implement food web metacommunity ecology at the biogeographical scales where most to the predictive models of species distribution are now developed. In doing so, we will gain a deeper understanding of how multi-trophic communities (metaweb) are structured across multiple scales.

Amarasekare P. (2008). Spatial Dynamics of Foodwebs. Annual Review of Ecology and Sysematics, 39, 479–500. Gravel D., Massol F., Canard E., Mouillot D. and Mouquet N. (2011). Trophic theory of island biogeography. Ecology Letters, 14, 1010-1016, doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01667.x Huffaker C.B. (1958). Experimental studies on predation : dispersal factors and predator-prey. Hilgardia, 27, 343-383.

Most of my research program on spatially structured food webs web has been concerned with modeling species dynamics in trophic metacommunities, developing the trophic theory of island biogeography and neutral theory of trophic interactions. This research has also resulted in producing review papers and integrated approaches.

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Trophic Metacommunities
Poisot T., Canard E., Mouillot D., Mouquet N. and Gravel D. (2012). The dissimilarity of species interaction networks. Ecology Letters, 15, 1353-1361, doi:10.1111/ele.12002, suppl. mat., R package
Calcagno V., Massol F., Mouquet N., Jarne P. and David P. (2011). Constraints on food chain length arising from regional metacommunity dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Serie B, 278, 3042-3049, doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0112
Gravel D., Canard E., Guichard F. and Mouquet N. (2011). Persistence Increases with Diversity and Connectance in Trophic Metacommunities. PLoS ONE, 6(5): e19374, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019374
Gravel D., Mouquet N., Loreau M., and Guichard F. (2010). Patch Dynamics, Persistence, and Species Coexistence in Metaecosystems. The American Naturalist, 176, 289-302, doi:10.1086/655426
Gravel D., Guichard F., Loreau M. and Mouquet N. (2010). Source and sink dynamics in metaecosystems. Ecology, 91, 2172-2184, doi:10.1890/09-0843.1

Trophic Theory of Island Biogeography
Gray, S.M., Poisot, T., Harvey, E.,Mouquet, N., Miller, T.E. and Gravel, D. (2016). Temperature and trophic structure are driving microbial productivity along a biogeographical gradient Ecography, 39,981-989, doi:10.1111/ecog.01748
Cazelle, K., Mouquet N., Mouillot, D. and Gravel, D. (2016). On the integration of biotic interaction and environmental constraints at the biogeographical scale. Ecography, 38, 001-011, doi:10.1111/ecog.01714
Cazelle, K., Araujo, M.B., Mouquet N., and Gravel, D. (2016). A theory for species co-occurrence in interaction networks. Theoretical Ecology, 9, 039-048, doi:10.1007/s12080-015-0281-9
Canard, E.F., Mouquet N., Mouillot, D., Stanko, M., Miklisova, D. & Gravel, D. (2014). Empirical Evaluation of Neutral Interactions in Host-Parasite Networks. The American Naturalist, 183, 468-479, doi:10.1086/675363
Canard E., Mouquet N., Marescot L., Gaston K.J., Gravel D. and Mouillot D. (2012). Emergence of Structural Patterns in Neutral Trophic Networks. PLoS ONE, 7, e38295, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038295
Gravel D., Massol F., Canard E., Mouillot D. and Mouquet N. (2011). Trophic theory of island biogeography. Ecology Letters, 14, 1010-1016, doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01667.x

Review papers and Integrated approaches
Warren B.H., R.E. Ricklefs, C. Thebaud, D. Gravel, & Mouquet, N. (2019). How consideration of islands has inspired mainstream ecology: links between the theory of island biogeography and some other key theories. In: Goldstein, M.I. and DellaSala, D.A. Encyclopedia of the Worlds Biomes: Islands and Atolls. Elsevier, Oxford.
Massol, F., Altermatt, F., Gounand, I., Gravel, D., Leibold, M.A. and Mouquet, N. (2017). How life-history traits affect ecosystem properties: effects of dispersal in meta-ecosystems. Oikos,126,532-546, doi:10.1111/oik.03893
Poisot, T., Baiser, B.,Dunne, J.A.,Kefi, S.,Massol, F.,Mouquet, N.,Romanuk, T.N.,Stouffer, D.B.,Wood, S.A.,Gravel, D.(2016). MANGAL - making ecological network analysis simple. Ecography, 39, 384-390, doi:10.1111/ecog.00976
Warren, B.H., Simberloff, D., Ricklefs, R.E., Aguilee, R., Condamine, F.L., Gravel, D., Morlon, H., Mouquet N., Rosindell, J., Casquet, J., Conti, E., Cornuault, J., Fernandez-Palacios, J.M., Hengl, T., Norder, S.J., Rijsdijk, K.F., Sanmartin, I., Strasberg, D., Triantis, K.A., Valente, L.M., Whittaker, R.J., Gillespie, R.G., Emerson, B.C., Thebaud, C. (2015). Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur-Wilson. Ecology Letters, 18, 200-217, doi:10.1111/ele.12398
Massol F., Gravel D., Mouquet N., Cadotte M.W., Fukami T. and Leibold M.A. (2011). Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through spatial ecology. Ecology Letters, 14, 313-323, doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01588.x