Predicting global community properties from uncertain estimates of interaction strengths

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 109, 2015, Pages

  Barabás, György ^a   Allesina, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Community matrix; Eigenvalues; Pseudospectrum; Random matrix; Robustness; Stability

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ECOLOGY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FORECASTING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COMMUNITY MATRIX; CRUDE APPROXIMATIONS; EIGENVALUES; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE ESTIMATE; PSEUDOSPECTRUM; RANDOM MATRIX; REACTIVITY PROPERTIES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY MATRIX; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GLOBAL COMMUNITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84940184777     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0218     Document Type: Article

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