Ecological communities are vulnerable to realistic extinction sequences

Oikos

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 486-496

  Berg, Sofia ^a,b   Pimenov, Alexander ^d,e   Palmer, Catherine ^d   Emmerson, Mark ^f   Jonsson, Tomas ^b,c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^f QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXTINCTION; FOOD WEB; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TOPOLOGY; TROPHIC STATUS; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84925853833     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01279     Document Type: Article

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