Department of Biology
The Bell Lab
 


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Food webs


The food web shows how matter and energy flow among different kinds of organism in the ecosystem.  I have developed an individual-based community model to investigate how the topology of the food web is determined and how it evolves over time.

  • Bell, G. 2007. The evolution of trophic structure. Heredity 99: 1-12. (Commentary: Heredity 99, 477-478)