Food Web Database

The food webs are based on published studies of various types of habitat. The original food web matrix is not a square matrix.  It contains m columns of predators and n rows of preys with a 1 at the intersection to indicate a direct feeding relation. We converted the original food web matrix into a community matrix and set aij = -1 and aji = 1 if species i feeds on species j. You can decide if a self-loop is added to each species or to the primary producer.

Web Number:
1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ,
16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ,
31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 ,
46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 ,
61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 ,
76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 ,
91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 ,
106 , 107 , 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 ,

Title: Biotic communities of the Aspen Parkland of central Canada
Citation: Ecology, 11:356-442 (1930). Prior number: Cohen (1978) 1.1
Year: 1978
# of species 15

Community Matrix:
 123456789101112131415
10-1-1000010000000
2100111000000000
3100010000000000
40-100-10-110000000
50-1-1100011000000
60-10000010000000
7000100000000100
8-100-1-1-10-1-10-1-1000
90000-10010-10-1-1-1-1
100000000010000-10
1100000001000-1-100
12000000011010000
13000000-101010000
1400000000110000-1
15000000001000010

Species#Species
1Richardson spermophile (ground squirrel)
2marsh hawk, coyote, red-tailed hawk, weasel
3badger
4vole (microtus)
513-striped spermophile (ground squirrel)
6pocket gopher ( Thomomys)
7great horned owl
8Agropyron, Stipa, Helianthus
9Hemiptera, grasshoppers, ect, insects in herb and surface stratum, Diptera,
10spiders
11insectes in soil stratum, wire worms, cutworms, white grubs, ect
12meadow lark, chipping sparrow, clay-colored sparrow, vesper sparrow, honed lark, upland plover
13crow
14frog
15garter snake

 

This project has been funded by:
NWACC Grant - Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (http://www.nwacc.org/)