The complex web of predator-prey relationships in the Adriatic Sea have shifted, suggesting human harvesting is taking a toll, according to research by SFI Professor Jennifer Dunne and colleagues.
The March 2012 issue of Scientific American includes an infographic displaying two food webs that illustrate these shifting relationships over the past 200 years.
The Adriatic study is among Dunne's recent research that includes humans as predators in the who-eats-whom networks known as food webs.
Read the Scientific American article (March 2012)
Read the SFI news release about other "humans as predators" research by Dunne and colleagues (February 17, 2012)
Read the “News of the Week” article in Science (February 23, 2012)
Read the “Science Now” online Science article (February 19, 2012)
Read the Alaska Dispatch article (March 22, 2012)
Watch a short video on food webs (4 minutes)
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