The diversity–stability debate

By K. McCann. Nature, 2000

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

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Olfactory recognition and behavioural avoidance of angiosperm nonhost volatiles by conifer‐inhabiting bark beetles (2004, background): “The ‘semiochemical-diversity hypothesis’ would provide new support to the general ‘stability-diversity hypothesis’ (Krebs, 1985; McCann, 2000) of population dynamics.”
Unifying the concepts of stability and resilience in ecology (2020, background): “…size Complexity Population Variability Species diversity Species richness Consequences Models May, 1973 McCann, 2000 May, 1972 Tilman, 1996 Yachi, 1999 Doak, 1998 Hooper, 2005 Loreau, 2001 Ives, 1994 MacArthur, 1955 McCann, 1998 Pimm, 1984 Tilman,…”
How does plant richness affect pollinator richness and temporal stability of flower visits (2008, background): “Greater floral abundance means higher resource availability for pollinators, which may also contribute to temporal variability (we will refer in the following to dynamic stability as defined by McCann 2000).”
Stability and persistence of food webs with omnivory: Is there a general pattern? (2012, background): “Various metrics used to assess stability emphasize the occurrence of stable point equilibria, limit cycles, chaotic orbits, alternative stable states, or the robustness of food webs to species loss (McCann 2000, Dunne et al. 2004, Ives and Carpenter 2007).”
Running off the road: roadside non-native plants invading mountain vegetation (2018, background): “Vegetation that is species diverse tends to be more resistant to invasion (Elton 1958; McCann 2000), although there are inconsistencies across spatial extents and habitats (Fridley et al.”
Intraguild predation: a widespread interaction related to species biology (2004, background): “The relationship between diversity, trophic structure and the stability of ecological systems is an old and persistent focus of attention in ecology (e.g. McCann 2000).”
Food web complexity and chaotic population dynamics (2002, methodology): “…for a relationship between dynamical stability and community structure stems from studies restricted to the primary producer level (Tilman 1996; McCann 2000), and studies that categorized dynamics as equilibria, limit cycle or chaotic oscillations have been restricted to systems of one…”
Community assembly along a species pool gradient: implications for multiple-scale patterns of species diversity (2004, neutral): “…of aij and bi more consistent with the skewed distributions of interaction strengths found in natural communities (Paine 1992; Berlow et al. 1999; McCann 2000, but see Abrams 2001; Sala and Graham 2002) than do methods that assume that aij and bi are distributed uniform randomly (Post and Pimm…”
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in food webs (2005, background): “properties such as connectivity, interaction strength or presence of inedible species are important to consider as they modify trophic cascades and top-down control (Leibold 1989; Abrams 1993) as well as various stability measures (Pimm 1984; McCann 2000) in food webs.”
Microbial community structure and variability in the tropical Pacific (2002, background): “This quasi-steady-state view could be a useful simplification, allowing application the extensive theoretical literature on how biological populations and ecosystems respond to perturbations (e.g., Pimm, 1982; McCann, 2000).”