Food web structure of the Galápagos Marine Reserve after a decade of protection

The Galápagos Islands and their surrounding large marine reserve are world-renowned for their unique biological diversity, as a natural laboratory of evolution and speciation, and as a major stimulus to Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection. The archipelago represents the top of eroded volcanoes that surfaced the ocean 4–5 million years ago, but with a geological history of more than 10–15 million years (Christie et al. 1992; Mitchell and Reading 1969).