Trophically unique species are vulnerable to cascading extinction

American Naturalist

Volumn 171, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 568-579

  Petchey, Owen L ^a   Eklöf, Anna ^b   Borrvall, Charlotte ^b   Ebenman, Bo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Food webs; Redundancy; Species deletions; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; EXTINCTION RISK; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PRIORITIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TROPHIC CASCADE; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD CHAIN; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42549083013     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587068     Document Type: Article

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