Predicting the stability of large structured food webs

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Allesina, Stefano ^a   Grilli, Jacopo ^b   Barabás, György ^a   Tang, Si ^a   Aljadeff, Johnatan ^a   Maritan, Amos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; FOOD WEB; NICHE; PREDICTION; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD WEB; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD CHAIN;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84937885085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8842     Document Type: Article

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