Trophic coherence determines food-web stability

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

Volumn 111, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 17923-17928

  Johnson, Samuel ^a   Domínguez García, Virginia ^b   Donetti, Luca ^b   Muñoz, Miguel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Diversity stability debate; Dynamical stability; Food webs; May's paradox

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOOD WEB; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC COHERENCE; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84918541234     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1409077111     Document Type: Article

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