Food web complexity and chaotic population dynamics

By G. Fussmann, Gerd Heber. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science

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The dynamics of spatially coupled food webs. (2005, background): “Recent theory and experiments suggests that omnivory can be an important stabilizing structure (McCann & Hastings 1997; Holyoak & Sachdev 1998; Fussmann & Heber 2002).”
Food‐web connectance and predator interference dampen the paradox of enrichment (2008, unknown): “Theoretical approaches have demonstrated that food-web complexity can greatly modify the stability and strength of consumer-resource interactions (Fussmann and Heber 2002) and may stabilize complex food webs (Haydon 2000).”
High trophic overlap within the seabird community of Argentinean Patagonia: a multiscale approach (2004, background): “…and structure of animal communities, ecologists have developed numerous theoretical models involving different aspects of food webs and their influence on community parameters including stability, complexity, connectivity and equilibrium (e.g. Fussmann & Heber 2002; Melián & Bascompte 2002).”
Dispersal‐induced desynchronization: from metapopulations to metacommunities (2004, background): “Preliminary results indicate that metacommunities consisting of ten equally-coupled patches, each harbouring a community of seven species food webs (modelled with a web discussed in Fussmann & Heber 2002 ), exhibit similar desynchronization tendencies in certain parameter regions (results not shown”
Scaling up keystone effects from simple to complex ecological networks (2005, result): “These results are consistent with other theoretical studies demonstrating that additional links can act to stabilize the dynamics of more complex networks (McCann et al. 1998; Fussmann & Heber 2002).”
Stability and persistence of food webs with omnivory: Is there a general pattern? (2012, background): “In general, however, increasing the number of omnivorous links reduced the parameter space in which model food webs persisted (Law and Blackford 1992, Fussmann and Heber 2002).”
Network ecology: topological constraints on ecosystem dynamics (2004, methodology): “The center of gravity measure has been used for characterizing food web complexity and it was shown that a higher ratio of species near the bottom of the web (low CG) reduces the frequency of chaotic population dynamics (46).”