Functional links and robustness in food webs

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1524, 2009, Pages 1701-1709

  Allesina, Stefano ^a,d   Bodini, Antonio ^b   Pascual, Mercedes ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Complexity; Ecological networks; Extinctions; Food webs; Robustness; Stability

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EXTINCTION; FOOD WEB; PERTURBATION;

EID: 67650254572     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0214     Document Type: Article

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