(Table A1) Species list of the high Antarctic Weddell Sea food web ...

• Main Authors: Jacob, Ute, Thierry, Aaron, Brose, Ulrich, Arntz, Wolf E, Berg, Sofia, Brey, Thomas, Fetzer, Ingo, Jonsson, Tomas, Mintenbeck, Katja, Möllmann, Christian, Petchey, Owen L, Riede, Jens O, Dunne, Jennifer A
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Species; Species code; Environment; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas SPP1158; Arctic; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Antarc*; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.788061; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.788061

Human-induced habitat destruction, overexploitation, introduction of alien species and climate change are causing species to go extinct at unprecedented rates, from local to global scales. There are growing concerns that these kinds of disturbances alter important functions of ecosystems. Our current understanding is that key parameters of a community (e.g. its functional diversity, species composition, and presence/absence of vulnerable species) reflect an ecological network's ability to resist or rebound from change in response to pressures and disturbances, such as species loss. If the food web structure is relatively simple, we can analyse the roles of different species interactions in determining how environmental impacts translate into species loss. However, when ecosystems harbour species-rich communities, as is the case in most natural systems, then the complex network of ecological interactions makes it a far more challenging task to perceive how species' functional roles influence the consequences ... : The species list that encompasses 488 consumer and resource species from the high Antarctic Weddell Sea was compiled by analyzing over 500 publications: for a full description of the methods used and a full list of these publications see Jacob (2005, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-diss000118684) ...