The authors examined how different levels of node resolution alter various food-web properties of an empirical freshwater dataset. Chedddar was used to compute some statistics.
Complex life cycles in a pond food web: effects of life stage structure and parasites on network properties, trophic positions and the fit of a ...
read moreWe confronted a widely used model of community dynamics with empirical data from a lake community. Cheddar was used to examine changes in community properties, showing that any important empirical patterns were reproducible as outcomes of dynamics, and were not reproducible when parameters did not follow physiological allometries.
Hudson and ...
read moreThe authors imposed different flow treatments on fresh-water mesocosms containing complex trophic communities. Cheddar was used to produce plots of the food-web data. Communities subjected to drought treaments had fewer species and fewer trophic interactions, leading to the partial collapse of the food web.
Ledger et al (2013) Extreme climatic ...
read moreThe authors examined patterns in species-poor communities of glacier-fed rivers. They used Cheddar to compute the suite of tritrophic food-web statistics, which combine the set of trophic links with species' body masses and numerical abundances. Their analysis revealed that any disturbances to a single taxon could propagate throughout the community ...
read moreMethods in Ecology and Evolution have published our applications paper that describes Cheddar. The article is open-access and can be accessed without a subscription.
Hudson et al (2013) Cheddar: analysis and visualisation of ecological communities in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4 (1) 99-104. 10.1111/2041-210X.12005
read moreThe authors examined the effects of temperature on the structure of communities in geothermally heated streams. Cheddar was used to create a number of plots and to compute a range of statistics. Body size, biomass and trophic interactions varied greatly with temperature.
O'Gorman et al (2013) Impacts of warming ...
read moreThe authors conducted a long-running field experiment to examine changes in the structure of stream communities that were subject to drought treatments. Cheddar was used to quantify changes in community structure. Drought caused the loss of many taxa and trophic links, resulting in changes in many network properties. Larger taxa ...
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