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Simulations of biomass dynamics in community food webs
Author(s) -
Delmas Eva,
Brose Ulrich,
Gravel Dominique,
Stouffer Daniel B.,
Poisot Timothée
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
methods in ecology and evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.425
H-Index - 105
ISSN - 2041-210X
DOI - 10.1111/2041-210x.12713
Subject(s) - biomass (ecology) , ecosystem , computer science , stability (learning theory) , key (lock) , food web , ecosystem model , ecology , environmental science , persistence (discontinuity) , machine learning , biology , geology , computer security , geotechnical engineering
Summary Food webs are the backbone upon which biomass flows through ecosystems. Dynamical models of biomass can reveal how the structure of food webs is involved in many key ecosystem properties, such as persistence, stability, etc. In this contribution, we present BioEnergeticFoodWebs , an implementation of Yodzis & Innes (The American Naturalist 139, 1151?1175, 1992) bio‐energetic model, in the high‐performance computing language Julia . We illustrate how this package can be used to conduct numerical experiments in a reproducible and standard way. A reference implementation of this widely used model will ease reproducibility and comparison of results across studies.