Structural asymmetry and the stability of diverse food webs

By Neil Rooney, K. McCann, G. Gellner, John C. Moore. Nature, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Coupled energy pathways and the resilience of size-structured food webs (2011, background): “In our analysis, the pelagic plankton-based pathway was inherently the faster pathway, also in keeping with Rooney et al. (2006).”
The Structure of Ecological Networks Across Levels of Organization (2020, background): “However, these spatial modules are not isolated but are connected to each other by highly connected top consumers (Baskerville et al. 2011, Rooney et al. 2006).”
Ecological Networks in a Changing Climate (2010, background): “Carbon-rich detrital resources can also serve to modulate the potentially destabilizing effects on network structure of ‘fast’ autochthonous food chains based on primary production (Rooney et al., 2006).”
Apparent Resource Partitioning and Trophic Structure of Large-Bodied Marine Predators in a Relatively Pristine Seagrass Ecosystem (2013, background): “…understanding the trophic interactions and positions of largebodied predators is an important step in elucidating the dynamics of marine communities (e.g. Williams et al. 2004, Lucifora et al. 2009) and the potential for top predators to couple various trophic pathways (e.g. Rooney et al. 2006).”
Food web overlap among native axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) and two exotic fishes: carp (Cyprinus carpio) and tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Xochimilco, Mexico City (2010, background): “Theoretical work indicates that food web stability is reduced in the absence of basal resource diversity (Rooney et al. 2006).”
Biodiversity loss and the taxonomic bottleneck: emerging biodiversity science (2006, background): “These factors provide the rationale for humanity’s collective concern about the fate of biodiversity (especially that of our backyards) and its conservation (Rooney et al. 2006).”