1 INTRODUCTION Understanding ecosystems requires the construction and modeling of complex networks that represent various species interactions, and abiotic factors. In such ecosystems, small invertebrates perform important tasks as consumers, prey, decomposers, and pollinators, and are thus critical to include (Kellert, 1993), but large and charismatic animals like birds and mammals have to date garnered the bulk of trophic ecologists' attention (Eisenhauer & Hines, 2021).
