How to predict community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1773, 2013, Pages

  Aufderheide, Helge ^a,b   Rudolf, Lars ^b   Gross, Thilo ^b   Lafferty, Kevin D ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex network; Food web; Generalized model; Impact; Key species; Perturbation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD WEB; GENERALIST; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MORTALITY; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PREDATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPLEX NETWORK; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; GENERALIZED MODEL; IMPACT; KEY SPECIES; PERTURBATION THEORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPLEX NETWORK; FOOD WEB; GENERALIZED MODEL; IMPACT; KEY SPECIES; PERTURBATION;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84902656850     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2355     Document Type: Article

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