Food webs robustness to biodiversity loss: The roles of connectance, expansibility and degree distribution

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 296-307

  Estrada, Ernesto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Food web; Good expansion; Graph theory; Network structure; Secondary extinctions; Species removal; Spectral scaling

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; THEORY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD WEB; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33751272891     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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