Ecological Networks as a Framework for Understanding and Predicting Contaminant Movement Across the Land-Water Interface

摘要: Models of interaction networks among species (i.e., network models) can be used to predict behavior complex adaptive systems, such as ecosystems at the land-water interface. As theoretical and empirical understanding ecological continues grow, models are increasingly quantify ecosystem stability, metapopulation dynamics, disease spread, social behavior. Here, we propose that also synthesize many dynamics regulate movement contaminants between aquatic terrestrial systems. We discuss how aquatic-terrestrial contaminant transport via food-web interactions, animal movement, mutualistic webs. In addition, knowledge social-ecological help address exposure risk humans. To illustrate an application in field subsidies, provide example responses dam removal a temperate river system. this example, observed shifts composition (especially losses larger-bodied, often predatory, sport fish) subsequent changes feeding relationships could reduce biomagnification food web thus humans other consumers short term. summary, will valuable framework for forecasting temporally spatially dynamic transport.