Food Web Ecology Lab: The Human Food Web Project

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.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

The Human Food Web Project

Many thanks to the four first year DISPers (Sarah Creaser, Joanna McNeil, Neil Jackson, and Ingen-Catherine Mueller, Dalhousie Integrated Science Program) who participated in a new research project in the foodweblab to assemble a "Human Food Web". Many thanks to second year volunteer Alyssa Byers-Heinlein who helped supervise this pilot study.