Stability in Real Food Webs: Weak Links in Long Loops

By A. Neutel, J.A.P.infoeu-repo Heesterbeek, P. D. de Ruiter. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science

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Towards sustainability in world fisheries (2002, background): “, and hence to compensate for prey fluctuations induced by environmental fluctuation”
The Structure of Ecological Networks Across Levels of Organization (2020, background): “Similar heterogeneity can also be observed in the distribution of interaction strengths in mutualistic networks and food webs, i.e., most interaction strengths are weak (Bascompte et al. 2006, McCann et al. 1998, Neutel et al. 2002).”
Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe (2015, background): “Changes in diversity within one group in the food web can affect diversity of another group through bottom-up or top-down effects (Gessner et al., 2010), thereby affecting food web properties, including food web structure, diversity, or stability (Neutel et al., 2002).”
Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food webs. (2006, background): “…in a community may reflect size constraints on who eats whom, the ratio of body sizes between predators and their prey may play an important role in explaining regularities in food web structure (Warren and Lawton 1987, Cohen et al. 1993) and stability (De Ruiter et al. 1995, Neutel et al. 2002).”
Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites? (2006, background): “stabilize the community structure in ways that increase resilience and that might help persistence [ 48 ].”
Topological keystone species : measures of positional importance in food webs (2006, background): “These include environs (Patten 1981), network modules (Melián and Bascompte 2002), weighted loops (Neutel et al. 2002), minimal spanning trees (Garlaschelli et al.”
Predator–prey body size, interaction strength and the stability of a real food web (2004, background): “Loops here are defined after Neutel et al. (2002). Classic studies have argued that omnivory (where species feed at more than one trophic level) should be statistically rare in food webs, because a large proportion of randomly parameterized simple omnivorous food webs were unstable (Pimm & Lawton 19”
A temporal approach to linking aboveground and belowground ecology. (2005, background): “For example, studies of soil food web development reveal that soil animal communities become more complex and stable, with increasing food chain length, as succession proceeds [ 39 ].”