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DOI	10.1111/ele.13096
	Matching consumer feeding behaviours and resource traits: a fourth-corner problem in food-web theory
	Monteiro A.B.; Faria L.D.B.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	1461023X
卷号	21 期号:8
英文摘要	For decades, food web theory has proposed phenomenological models for the underlying structure of ecological networks. Generally, these models rely on latent niche variables that match the feeding behaviour of consumers with their resource traits. In this paper, we used a comprehensive database to evaluate different hypotheses on the best dependency structure of trait-matching patterns between consumers and resource traits. We found that consumer feeding behaviours had complex interactions with resource traits; however, few dimensions (i.e. latent variables) could reproduce the trait-matching patterns. We discuss our findings in the light of three food web models designed to reproduce the multidimensionality of food web data; additionally, we discuss how using species traits clarify food webs beyond species pairwise interactions and enable studies to infer ecological generality at larger scales, despite potential taxonomic differences, variations in ecological conditions and differences in species abundance between communities. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS
英文关键词	Community structure; dimensionality; ecological networks; latent variables
语种	英语
scopus关键词	biological model; ecology; feeding behavior; food chain; phenotype; Ecology; Feeding Behavior; Food Chain; Models, Biological; Phenotype
来源期刊	Ecology Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/121267
作者单位	Department of Biology, Federal University of Lavras, Brazil
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Monteiro A.B.,Faria L.D.B.. Matching consumer feeding behaviours and resource traits: a fourth-corner problem in food-web theory[J],2018,21(8).
APA	Monteiro A.B.,&Faria L.D.B..(2018).Matching consumer feeding behaviours and resource traits: a fourth-corner problem in food-web theory.Ecology Letters,21(8).
MLA	Monteiro A.B.,et al."Matching consumer feeding behaviours and resource traits: a fourth-corner problem in food-web theory".Ecology Letters 21.8(2018).