Persistence increases with diversity and connectance in trophic metacommunities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Gravel, Dominique ^a,b   Canard, Elsa ^c   Guichard, Frédéric ^a   Mouquet, Nicolas ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FOOD WEB; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METACOMMUNITY DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD CHAIN;

BIOTA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79957585100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019374     Document Type: Article

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