Compartmentalization increases food-web persistence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3648-3652

  Stouffer, Daniel B ^a   Bascompte, Jordi ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Modularity; Species dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FOOD WEB; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952754639     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014353108     Document Type: Article

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