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: Food cycles in sphagnous bogs
Citation: Hydrobiologia 17:175-182 (1961)
Year: 1961
# of species 18

Community Matrix:
 123456789101112131415161718
1-10000-1000000000000
20-1000-1000000000000
300-1000-100000000000
4000-1000-100-10000000
50000-1000-10000000-10
611000000000-1-100000
7001000000-10-1-100000
80001000000-1000-1000
90000100000000000-10
10000000100000000000
11000100010000000000
12000001100000-100000
1300000110000100-1-1-10
140000000000000-10000
15000000010000100-100
160000000000001010-10
1700001000100010010-1
18000000000000000010

Species#Species
1Sphagnum riparium
2algae
3detritus
4decomposing sphagnum
5angiosperms
6Psectrocladius larvae
7chironomid larvae, cladocerans, rotifers
8fungi
9caterpillars
10Utricularia
11collembola
12chaoborus, Odonata larvae, Hemiptera, Coleptera
13Nematocera imagines
14Drosera
15ants
16spiders
17frogs, lizards, birds
18birds of prey

 

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