Connectance indicates the robustness of food webs when subjected to species loss

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-80

  Gilbert, Alison J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity loss; Connectance; Degree distribution; Ecological networks; Robustness; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CANNING; ECOLOGY; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FOOD ADDITIVES; FOOD PRESERVATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

ACKNOWLEDGES (ACK); ANIMAL POPULATIONS; BIODIVERSITY LOSSES; COMMUNITY STABILITY; CONNECTANCE; ECOSYSTEM STABILITY; ELSEVIER (CO); FOOD WEBS; HUMAN IMPACTS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; INTERACTION PATTERNS; MONITORING DATA; NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS; NETWORK INTEGRITY; NETWORK STRUCTURES; PAPER TESTING; SPECIES COMPOSITIONS; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILLIAMS (CO);

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CONNECTIVITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD WEB; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 48149098631     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Albert R., and Barabási A.-L. Statistical mechanics of complex networks. Rev. Mod. Phys. 74 (2002) 47-97
2. Albert R., Jeong H., and Barabási A.-L. Error and attack tolerance of complex networks. Nature 406 (2000) 378-382
3. Allen T.F.H., and Starr T.B. Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity (1982), University of Chicago Press, Chicago
4. Amaral R., Scala A., Barthelmy M., and Stanlely H.E. Classes of small-world networks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (2000) 11149-11152
5. Barabási A.-L., and Albert R. Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science 286 (1999) 509-512
6. Bjornstad O.N., and Grenfell B.T. Noisy clockwork: time series analysis of population fluctuations in animals. Science 293 (2001) 638-642
7. Borrett S.R., Fath B.D., and Patten B.C. Functional integration of ecological networks through pathway proliferation. J. Theor. Biol. 245 (2007) 98-111
8. Camacho J., Guimerà R., and Amaral L.A.N. Analytical solution of a model for complex food webs. Phys. Rev. E 65 (2002) art. no. 030901
9. Cameron T. The year of the 'diversity-ecosystem function' debate. Trends Ecol. Evol. 17 (2002) 495-496
10. Chapin F.S.I., Zaveleta E.S., Eviner E.S., Naylor R.L., Vitousek P.M., Reynolds H.L., Hooper D.U., Lavorel S., Sala O.E., Hobbie S.E., Mack M.C., and Diaz S. Consequences of changing biodiversity. Nature 405 (2000) 234-242
11. Dell A.J., Kokkoris G.D., Banašek-Richter C., Bersoer L.-F., Dunne J.A., Kondoh M., Romanuk T.N., and Martinez N.D. How do complex food webs persist in nature?. In: Ruiter P.C.d., Wolters V., and Moore J.C. (Eds). Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change. Theoretical Ecology Series (2006), Academic Press, Amsterdam 425-436
12. Dunne J.A., Williams R.J., and Martinez N.D. Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance. Ecol. Lett. 5 (2002) 558-567
13. Dunne J.A., Williams R.J., and Martinez N.D. Food-web structure and network theory: the role of connectance and size. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (2002) 12917-12922
14. Fath B.D., and Patten B.C. Network synergism: emergence of positive relations in ecological systems. Ecol. Model. 107 (1998) 27-143
15. Fath B., and Halnes D.G. Cyclic energy pathways in ecological food webs. Ecol. Model. 208 (2007) 17-24
16. Gardner M.R., and Ashby W.R. Connectance of large dynamical (cybernetic) systems: critical values for stability. Nature 228 (1970) 784
17. Gilbert A.J., and Feenstra J.F. A sustainability indicator for the Dutch environmental policy theme 'Diffusion': cadmium accumulation in soil. Ecol. Econ. 9 (1994) 253-265
18. Gilbert, A.J., 2006. Coevolution in Complex Networks: an analysis of socio-natural interactions for wetlands management. Ph.D. dissertation, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. http://www.ubvu.vu.nl/index.cfm?objecttype=page&objectid=1&talen=&CFID=1595101&CFTOKEN=46663709.
19. Jeong H., Tombor B., Albert R., Oltvai Z.N., and Barabási A.-L. The large-scale organization of metabolic networks. Nature 407 (2000) 651-654
20. Jeong H., Mason S.P., Barabási A.-L., and Oltvai Z.N. Lethality and centrality in protein networks. Nature 411 (2001) 41
21. Kaiser J. Rift over biodiversity divides ecologists. Science 289 (2000) 1282-1283
22. Lafferty K.D., Dobson A.P., and Kurls A.M. Parasites dominate food web links. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103 (2006) 11211-11216
23. Leontief W. Quantitative input and output relations in the economic system of the United States. Rev. Econ. Stat. XVIII (1936) 105-125
24. Leontief W. The Structure of the American Economy, 1919-1929 (1941), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
25. Leontief W. Input-Output Economics (1966), Oxford University Press, New York
26. Martinez N.D. Artifacts or attributes? Effects of resolution on the Little Rock Lake food web. Ecol. Monogr. 61 (1991) 367-392
27. MacArthur R.H. Fluctuation of animal populations and a measure of community stability. Ecology 36 (1955) 533-536
28. May R.M. Will a large complex system be stable?. Nature 238 (1972) 413-414
29. May R.M. Stabiliity and Complexity in Model Ecosystems (1973), Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
30. McCann K. The diversity-stability debate. Nature 405 (2000) 228-233
31. Montoya J.M., Pimm S.L., and Sole R.V. Ecological networks and their fragility. Nature 442 (2006) 259-264
32. Montoya J.M., and Solé R.V. Small world pattern in food webs. J. Theor. Biol. 214 (2002) 405-412
33. Myers N., and Knoll A.H. The biotic crisis and the future of evolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 (2001) 5389-5392
34. Patten B.C. Network perspectives on ecological indicators and actuators: Enfolding, observability, and controllability. Ecol. Indic. 6 (2006) 6-23
35. Redner S. How popular is your paper? An empirical study of the citation distribution. Eur. Phys. 4 (1998) 131-134
36. Rooney N., McCann K., Gellner G., and Moore J.C. Structural asymmetry and the stability of diverse food webs. Nature 442 (2006) 265-269
37. Seglen P.O. The skewness of science. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 43 (1992) 628-638
38. Solé R.V., and Montoya J.M. Complexity and fragility in ecological networks. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Bio. 268 (2001) 2039-2045
39. Steel R.G.D., and Torrie J.H. Principles and Procedures of Statistics: A Biometrical Approach. 2nd edn. (1981), McGraw-Hill Book Company, London
40. Tilman D., Reich P.B., and Knops J.M.H. Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment. Nature 441 (2006) 629-632
41. Vermaat, J.E., Dunne, J.A. and Gilbert, A.J., Major dimensions in food-web structure properties. Ecology, in preparation.
42. Watts D.J., and Strogatz S.H. Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks. Nature 393 (1998) 440-442
43. Woodruff D.S. Declines of biomes and biotas and the future of evolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 (2001) 5471-5476
44. Worm B., and Duffy J.E. Biodiversity, productivity and stability in real food webs. Trends Ecol. Evol. 18 (2003) 628-632