Food Web Ecology Lab: January 2009

Aquatic Food Web Ecology Lab, Dalhousie University

Research in the Aquatic Food Web Ecology Lab based at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, focuses on the consequences of biodiversity loss to the functioning and stability of aquatic food webs. All of our work is done in a food web context, which means that its not just the numbers of species that we are interested in, but also the structure of the food webs in which those species are embedded. Most of our work is done in aquatic microcosms, small container ecosystems in which we can assemble food webs and then subject them to various types of disturbance regimes . We also use mathematical models to run "in silico" experiments, otherwise known as computer simulations, to study problems that are too complex or just not possible to conduct in natural systems.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Upcoming Talks

February 21-24th, 2010, at Ecosystem Management applying to ecosystem adaptability science: I. Robustness and stability of organisms and ecosystems” in Sendai, Japan.
March 26, 2010. Saint Marys University, Halifax, NS (Host: Jeremy Lundholm)
April 6th, 2010 Guelph (Host: Kevin McCann)
Past Talks
December 4th, 2009, University of New Brunswick
February 16th, University of Potsdam, Berlin, Germany "Species Invasions in Complex Ecological Networks" Hosts: Dr. Neo Martinez and Dr. Ursula Gaedke
February 23rd, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany "Species Invasions in Complex Ecological Networks" Host: Dr. Ulrich Brose
February 25th, University of Sheffield, England "Species Invasions in Complex Ecological Networks" Host: Dr. Owen Petchey
March 30th, PIMS Mathematical Biology Seminar Series, University of Alberta "Species Invasions in Complex Ecological Networks" Host: Dr. Mark Lewis

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Predicting invasion success in complex ecological networks

In a special issue on "Food Webs"
This paper was ranked the 33rd most read article in June 2009 in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B
BY...

* Tamara N. Romanuk,
* Yun Zhou,
* Ulrich Brose,
* Eric L. Berlow,
* Richard J. Williams,
* and Neo D. Martinez

Predicting invasion success in complex ecological networks. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B June 27, 2009 364:1743-1754; doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0286