Variability in interaction strength and implications for biodiversity

By G. Kokkoris, Vincent A. A. Jansen, Michel Loreau, A. Troumbis. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in food webs (2005, result): “These results confirm the classical result that stability requires low interaction strength (Kokkoris et al. 2002).”
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of spatial and temporal variation in pre-dispersal seed predation (2007, background): “Many of these focus on communitylevel patterns, for example, examining the distribution of interaction strengths within a system and investigating the consequences for community stability, persistence or biodiversity (de Ruiter et al., 1995; Kokkoris et al., 2002).”
Stability criteria for complex ecosystems (2011, background): “Variability in interaction strengths was previously found to be detrimental for stability in large food web”
Inferring species interactions in ecological communities: a comparison of methods at different levels of complexity (2015, methodology): “This is especially the case in a multispecies scenario197 (see paragraph Community model below), and in such it is therefore common practice to rescale198 the interaction matrix (see e.g., Kokkoris et al. 2002).”
Does functional redundancy exist (2004, background): “…and colonisation abilities, can be viewed as a model of interference competition in which there is a trade-off between the ability for interference competition and the ability to use more resources and hence maintain a higher carrying capacity (Adler and Mosquera 2000, Kokkoris et al. 2002).”
Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities (2004, methodology): “…theoretical investigations have focused on stability of model communities (e.g. Levins 1968; May 1971, 1972, 1974; Hutchinson 1978; Cohen & Newman 1984; Cohen & Newman 1985; Case 1990; Logofet 1993; McCann & Hastings 1997; McCann 2000; Kokkoris et al. 2002; Jansen & Kokkoris 2003; Logofet 2004 ).”
Evidence for limiting similarity in a sand dune community (2004, background): “The coexistence of many species within a community can be due to weak interspecific interactions (Kokkoris et al. 2002), but this model cannot be invoked to explain the results of the present study as it cannot explain the 565 Limiting similarity within a dune community © 2004 British Ecological…”
Complexity and stability of ecological networks: a review of the theory (2018, background): “In a later study (Kokkoris et al. 2002), the same authors explored how the number of coexisting species vary with the average interaction strength.”