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Food Web Designer: a flexible tool to visualize interaction networks.
Journal of Pest Science ( IF 4.8 ) Pub Date : 2015-08-09 , DOI: 10.1007/s10340-015-0686-7
Daniela Sint 1 , Michael Traugott 1
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Species are embedded in complex networks of ecological interactions and assessing these networks provides a powerful approach to understand what the consequences of these interactions are for ecosystem functioning and services. This is mandatory to develop and evaluate strategies for the management and control of pests. Graphical representations of networks can help recognize patterns that might be overlooked otherwise. However, there is a lack of software which allows visualizing these complex interaction networks. Food Web Designer is a stand-alone, highly flexible and user friendly software tool to quantitatively visualize trophic and other types of bipartite and tripartite interaction networks. It is offered free of charge for use on Microsoft Windows platforms. Food Web Designer is easy to use without the need to learn a specific syntax due to its graphical user interface. Up to three (trophic) levels can be connected using links cascading from or pointing towards the taxa within each level to illustrate top-down and bottom-up connections. Link width/strength and abundance of taxa can be quantified, allowing generating fully quantitative networks. Network datasets can be imported, saved for later adjustment and the interaction webs can be exported as pictures for graphical display in different file formats. We show how Food Web Designer can be used to draw predator–prey and host-parasitoid food webs, demonstrating that this software is a simple and straightforward tool to graphically display interaction networks for assessing pest control or any other type of interaction in both managed and natural ecosystems from an ecological network perspective.

中文翻译:

Food Web Designer:一种可视化交互网络的灵活工具。

物种被嵌入到复杂的生态相互作用网络中,评估这些网络提供了一种有力的方法来了解这些相互作用对生态系统功能和服务的影响。必须制定和评估有害生物的管理和控制策略。网络的图形表示可以帮助识别可能会被忽略的模式。但是,缺少允许可视化这些复杂交互网络的软件。Food Web Designer是一个独立的,高度灵活且用户友好的软件工具,用于定量地显示营养性和其他类型的两方和三方相互作用网络。它是免费提供的,可以在Microsoft Windows平台上使用。Food Web Designer的图形用户界面易于使用,无需学习特定的语法。可以使用从每个级别中的分类单元级联或指向的链接最多连接三个(营养级别)级别,以说明自上而下和自下而上的连接。链接宽度/强度和分类单元的数量可以量化,从而可以生成完全定量的网络。可以导入网络数据集,将其保存以供以后调整,并且可以将交互网络导出为图片,以图形方式显示为不同的文件格式。我们将展示如何使用Food Web Designer绘制捕食者-猎物和寄主寄生的食物网,
更新日期:2015-08-09
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