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: The trophic interrelationships and ecology of some littoral comxrninities of Lake Nyasa
Citation: Proc. London Zool. Soc. 132:153-281 (1959). Prior number: Cohen (1978) 28.3
Year: 1978
# of species 33

Community Matrix:
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4000000000001100000111100000000000
5000000001000000001000000000000000
6000000001000000000000000000000000
7-100000000000000000000000001000000
8-1000000-10000000000000000000000000
90000-1-1000000100000010000000000000
10000000000000000000001000001010000
11000000000000000000000000000000001
12000-10000000-1000000000000000000000
1300-1-10000-10000000-10100000001000000
14000000000000000000010100000000000
150-10000000000000000000000001000000
16000000000000000000000100000000001
17000000000000100000010000001000000
180000-10000000000000000000001000000
190-1-1-100000000-100000000000001000000
200-1-1-10000-10000-100-10000000001000000
21000-100000-100000000000000001000000
22000-1000000000-10-100000000001000000
23000000000000000000000000001000000
24000000000000000000000000000000001
25000000000000000000000000001000000
26000000000000000000000000001000000
270-1-1000-100-100-10-10-1-1-1-1-1-1-10-1-1-1-100000
28000000000000000000000000001010000
29000000000-100000000000000000-1-1-1000
30000000000000000000000000000010101
3100000000000000000000000000000-1-100
32000000000000000000000000000000001
330000000000-10000-10000000-100000-10-1-1

Species#Species
1Crocodilus niloticus
2juvenile Cichlidae
3Barbus inocens
4Serranochromis robustus
5Naucoris sp.
6Clarias mellandi
7frogs
8Dytiscid beetles
9Anisopterid larvae
10Barbus paludinosus
11Alestes imberi
12mosquito larvae
13cyclopoid copepods
14Zygopterid larvae
15Caridina nilotica
16Tilapia shirana, T. saka-squamipinnis
17Gyraulus costulatus
18cladocera
19Chironomid larvae
20caddis larvae
21Baetid nymphs
22Micronecta
23Barbus sp.
24Segmentorbis angustus
25Limnaea sp.
26bottom algae and detritus
27Haplochromis similis
28haplochromis similis
29higher plants
30Claruias mossambicus
31indet, fishes
32Gerrids
33terrestrial insects

 

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