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: Summer bottom fauna of the Mississippi River above Dam 19
Citation: Keokuk, Iowa, Ecology 49:162-168 (1968).
Year: 1968
# of species 21

Community Matrix:
 123456789101112131415161718192021
1-10-1-1-1-1000-1000000000-10
20-1000-1-1-1-1-1-1000000-1000
31000000000000-10-10-10-10
410000000000000-1-1000-10
5100000000000-1-1-1-1-1-10-10
6110000000000000-1-1-10-10
7010000000-1-1-100000-1000
8010000000000000-1-1-10-10
9010000000000000-10-1000
10110000100000000-1-1-1000
11010000100000000-1-1-1000
12000000100000000-10-10-1-1
13000010000000000-10-1000
1400101000000000000-1000
15000110000000000-10-1000
1600111101111110100-1000
1700001101011000000000-1
18011011111111111100-1-1-1
1900000000000000000100-1
20101111010001000001000
21000000000001000011100

Species#Species
1detritus
2phytoplankton
3burrowing ephemerids
4Oligochaeta
5Chironomidae
6Gastropoda
7zooplankton
8Amnicolidae
9herbivorous insects
10Pelecypoda
11Potamya
12macrocrustacea
13oecetis
14Sialis
15carnivorous Diptera
16Gomphus
17ducks (Lesser Scaup)
18benthos-eating fish
19piscivorous fish
20Hirudinea
21mammals

 

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