Structural Degradation in Mediterranean Sea Food Webs: Testing Ecological Hypotheses Using Stochastic and Mass-Balance Modelling

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From common to rare: The case of the Mediterranean common dolphin (2011, background): “Several Mediterranean ecosystem models have highlighted the importance of primary production in the dynamic of the pelagic food web (Coll et al., 2008b, 2009; Piroddi et al., 2010).”
The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats (2010, background): “Such fundamental changes in species composition had effects on the structure and functioning of food webs and ecosystems [113,273].”
Connectance of species interaction networks and conservation value: Is it any good to be well connected? (2012, background): “…No effect None Qualitative Yes Aizen et al 2008 Marine food web Disturbance / degradation Positive C lower on degraded Positive Qualitative No Coll et al 2008 Plant-herbivores-parasitoids on forest Plant invasion No expectation No effect None Quantitative Yes Heleno et al 2009…”
Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity. (2012, methodology): “Using food-web analysis of food webs degraded by over-ﬁshing, it was possible to show that the degraded food webs were more vulnerable to future species loss than comparable marine food webs which had been subjected to lower levels of exploitation [75].”