Response of complex food webs to realistic extinction sequences

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 671-682

  Srinivasan, U Thara ^a   Dunne, Jennifer A ^b,c   Harte, John ^a,d   Martinez, Neo D ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidification; Adirondack lakes; Biodiversity; Complex networks; Extinction order; Food web; Lake communities; Nestedness; Pelagic; Random extinctions; Robustness; Species loss

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; FOOD WEB; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NESTEDNESS; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD CHAIN; PH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NEW YORK; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ADIRONDACK LAKE; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247099897     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0971     Document Type: Article

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