Generalized models reveal stabilizing factors in food webs

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5941, 2009, Pages 747-750

  Gross, Thilo ^a   Rudolf, Lars ^a   Levin, Simon A ^b,c   Dieckmann, Ulf ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University Fellow   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; MODELING;

ARTICLE; FOOD WEB; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; PREDATION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES; STRENGTH;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 68449104875     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1173536     Document Type: Article

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24. T.G. and L.R. thank B. Blasius for extensive discussions and insightful comments. S.L. acknowledges the support of NSF (grant DEB-0083566) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (grant HR0011-05-1-0057). U.D. acknowledges support by the European Commission, the European Science Foundation, the Austrian Science Fund, and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund.