Benjamin Planque, Raul Primicerio, Kathrine Michalsen, Michaela Aschan, Grégoire Certain, Padmini Dalpadado, Harald Gjøsæater, Cecilie Hansen, Edda Johannesen, Lis Lindal Jørgensen, Ina Kolsum, Susanne Kortsch, Lise-Marie Leclerc, Lena Omli, Mette Skern-Mauritzen, Magnus Wiedmann. 2014. Who eats whom in the Barents Sea: a food web topology from plankton to whales. Ecology 95:1430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-1062.1

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Ecological Archives E095-124-D1.

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Author(s)

Benjamin Planque
Institute of Marine Research
PO Box 6404
9294 Tromsø, Norway

Raul Primicerio
Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics
University of Tromsø
9037 Tromsø, Norway

Kathrine Michalsen
Institute of Marine Research
PO Box 1870
5817 Bergen, Norway

Michaela Aschan
Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics
University of Tromsø
9037 Tromsø, Norway

Grégoire Certain
Institute of Marine Research
PO Box 6404
9294 Tromsø, Norway

Padmini Dalpadado
Institute of Marine Research
PO Box 1870
5817 Bergen, Norway

Harald Gjøsæter
Institute of Marine Research
PO Box 1870
5817 Bergen, Norway

Cecilie Hansen
Institute of Marine Research
PO Box 1870
5817 Bergen, Norway

Edda Johannesen
Institute of Marine Research
PO Box 1870
5817 Bergen, Norway

Lis Lindal Jørgensen
Institute of Marine Research
PO Box 6404
9294 Tromsø, Norway

Ina Kolsum
Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics
University of Tromsø
9037 Tromsø, Norway

Susanne Kortsch
Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics
University of Tromsø
9037 Tromsø, Norway

Lisa-Marie Leclerc
Department of Environment
Government of Nunavut
PO Box 377
XOB 0E0 Kugluktuk, Nu, Canada

Lena Omli
Institute of Marine Research
Nye Flødevigveien 20
4817 His, Norway

Mette Skern-Mauritzen
Institute of Marine Research
PO Box 1870
5817 Bergen, Norway

Magnus Wiedmann
Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics
University of Tromsø
9037 Tromsø, Norway

Data Files

SpeciesList.txt (MD5: 2368c64b689cf66e9ea3b9c9cd50372d)

PairwiseList.txt (MD5: 3affef42842b44ad881c52afbfb18ec7)

References.txt (MD5: b67f9c6520f279286c78c9eae1e1e440)


Revised Data Files August 2015

SpeciesList.txt (MD5: c7f529ed3022cbc3ed086a4f3431c03d)

PairWiseList.txt (MD5: 4df0f3426bb184f387cf1bd3fb6d4267)

References.txt (MD5: f4291faf30744df9f11678070caa2c1e)

PairWise2References.txt (MD5: 937abdd3de410350bf0f4a8359da5607)

Abstract

A food web is an ecological network and its topological description consists of the list of nodes, i.e., trophospecies, the list of links, i.e., trophic interactions, and the direction of interactions (who is the prey and who is the predator). Food web topologies are widely used in ecology to describe structural properties of communities or ecosystems. The selection of trophospecies and trophic interactions can be realized in different manners so that many different food webs may be constructed for the same community. In the Barents Sea, many simple food webs have been constructed. We present a comprehensive food web topology for the Barents Sea ecosystem, from plankton to marine mammals. The protocol used to compile the data set includes rules for the selection of taxa and for the selection and documentation of the trophic links. The resulting topology, which includes 244 taxa and 1589 trophic links, can serve as a basis for topological analyses, comparison with other marine ecosystems, or as a basis to build simulation models of the Barents Sea ecosystem. The data set consists of three related tables: (1) the list of taxa, (2) the list of pairwise interactions, and (3) the list of bibliographical references.

Key words: benthos; birds; fish; mammals; plankton; trophic interactions.