Biodiversity lessens the risk of cascading extinction in model food webs

By C. Borrvall, B. Ebenman, T. Jonsson. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science

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Biodiversity, climate change, and ecosystem services (2009, background): “Experiments have shown that the greater the diversity of functional groups in a system the less is the likelihood of cascading species extinctions [12].”
THE INSURANCE VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (2005, background): “This is what ecologists have been calling an ‘insurance effect’ of biodiversity in carrying out ecological processes (Borrvall et al. 2000, Elton 1958, Chapin and Shaver 1985, Hooper et al. 2002, Lawton and Brown 1993, MacArthur 1955, Naeem 1998, Naeem and Li 1997, Petchey et al. 1999, Trenbath…”
Body size in ecological networks. (2005, background): “[ 47 ]). Size-biased, non-random species loss therefore has important implications for the risk of cascading secondary extinctions [47‐52] and the loss of functional diversity from ecosystems [11,50,53].”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances (2000, background): “Borrvall et al. (2000) have recently revisited classical Lotka–Volterra models of food webs studied by Pimm (1979), and found that increasing the number of species within a trophic level decreases the risk of losing additional species after an extinction event, thus increasing resistance to further ”
Species loss and the structure and functioning of multitrophic aquatic systems (2004, methodology): “out regard to aij or aji (Borrvall et al. 2000).”
Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance (2002, background): “For example, Borrvall et al. (2000) studied secondary extinctions that result from removal of a single species in food webs with three functional groups and two to six species per functional group, with connectance approximately constant.”
Complexity and stability of ecological networks: a review of the theory (2018, background): “Pimm (1979, 1980b) showed that extinction cascades are more likely in model (generalized Lotka–Volterra) communities with larger total number of species, contrasted by Borrvall et al. (2000) that found the robustness (resistance) of the same model food web to increase with network redundancy (number”
Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation? (2005, background): “Indirect effects can allow such extinction cascades to propagate through multiple levels in food webs (Borrvall et al. 2000, Dyer & Letourneau 2003, Morris et al. 2004).”
Biodiversity hotspots, centres of endemicity, and the conservation of coral reefs (2002, background): “Thus, extinctions of one or a few species in peripheral locations are more likely to be associated with losses of critical ecosystem functions compared to high diversity regions ( Borrvall et al. 2000; Bellwood & Hughes 2001).”
Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline (2020, background): “This means that as communities become simpler with biodiversity loss, networks become more vulnerable to cascading extinctions (Borrvall et al., 2000; Sanders et al., 2018a).”
Seeds for livelihood: Crop biodiversity and food production in Ethiopia (2010, background): “Therefore, biodiversity can act as an insurance in carrying out ecological processes (Borrvall et al., 2000; Elton, 1958; Chapin and Shaver, 1985; Hooper et al., 1995; Lawton and Brown, 1993;MacArthur, 1955; Naeem, 1998; Naeem and Li, 1997; Petchey et al., 1999; Trenbath, 1999; Baumgärtner and Quaas”
Stability and persistence of food webs with omnivory: Is there a general pattern? (2012, background): “Another work explored the resistance of food webs to further extinction following species loss, and found that omnivory appeared to have a stabilizing effect (Borrvall et al. 2000).”