Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: Robustness increases with connectance

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 558-567

  Dunne, Jennifer A ^a,b   Williams, Richard J ^a   Martinez, Neo D ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Connectance; Ecosystem function; Food web; Network structure; Robustness; Secondary extinctions; Species loss; Species richness; Topology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONNECTIVITY; FOOD WEB; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 0036316089     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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