Impacts of Aggregation Methods and Trophospecies Number on the Structure and Function of Marine Food Webs  

作　　者：LI Pengcheng ZHANG Chongliang XU Binduo JI Yupeng LI Fan REN Yiping XUE Ying 

机构地区：[1]Laboratory of Fisheries Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment,College of Fisheries,Ocean University of China,Qingdao 266003,China [2]Field Observation and Research Station of Haizhou Bay Fishery Ecosystem,Ministry of Education,Qingdao 266003,China [3]Shandong Marine Resources and Environment Research Institute,Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Restoration for Marine Ecology,Yantai 264006,China [4]Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes,Laoshan Laboratory,Qingdao 266237,China

出　　处：《Journal of Ocean University of China》2024年第1期190-198,共9页中国海洋大学学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2019YFD0901204,2019YFD 0901205).

摘　　要：Aggregation of species with similar ecological properties is one of the effective methods to simplify food web researches.However,species aggregation will affect not only the complexity of modeling process but also the accuracy of models’outputs.Selection of aggregation methods and the number of trophospecies are the keys to study the simplification of food web.In this study,three aggregation methods,including taxonomic aggregation(TA),structural equivalence aggregation(SEA),and self-organizing maps(SOM),were analyzed and compared with the linear inverse model–Markov Chain Monte Carlo(LIM-MCMC)model.Impacts of aggregation methods and trophospecies number on food webs were evaluated based on the robustness and unitless of ecological net-work indices.Results showed that aggregation method of SEA performed better than the other two methods in estimating food web structure and function indices.The effects of aggregation methods were driven by the differences in species aggregation principles,which will alter food web structure and function through the redistribution of energy flow.According to the results of mean absolute percentage error(MAPE)which can be applied to evaluate the accuracy of the model,we found that MAPE in food web indices will increase with the reducing trophospecies number,and MAPE in food web function indices were smaller and more stable than those in food web structure indices.Therefore,trade-off between simplifying food webs and reflecting the status of ecosystem should be con-sidered in food web studies.These findings highlight the importance of aggregation methods and trophospecies number in the analy-sis of food web simplification.This study provided a framework to explore the extent to which food web models are affected by dif-ferent species aggregation,and will provide scientific basis for the construction of food webs.

关 键 词：LIM-MCMC model species aggregation trophospecies number aggregation methods food web indices 

分 类 号：Q178[生物学—水生生物学]