Introduction to the special issue: theory of food webs

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hastings, Alan ^a   McCann, Kevin S ^b   de Ruiter, Peter C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954481847     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-016-0292-1     Document Type: Editorial

References (15)

1. De Ruiter PC, Moore JC, Wolters V (2005) Dynamic food webs: multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change, vol 3, Theoretical Ecology. Academic, Cambridge
2. DeAngelis DL (1975) Stability and connectance in food web models. Ecology 56:238–243
3. DeAngelis DL, Post W, Sugihara G (1983) Current trends in food web theory. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
4. Dobson A, Allesina S, Lafferty K, Pascual M (2009) Food-web assembly and collapse: mathematical models and implications for conservation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364:1803–1806, 1524
5. Karieva P, Levin SA (2003) The importance of species: perspectives on expendability and triage. Princeton University Press, Princeton
6. MacArthur R (1955) Fluctuations of animal populations, and a measure of community stability. Ecology 36:533–536
7. May RM (1972) Will a large complex system be stable? Nature 238:413–414
8. May RM (1973) Stability and complexity in model ecosystems, 2nd edn. Princeton University Press, Princeton
9. Moore JC, de Ruiter PC, McCann KS, Wolters V (2016) Adaptive food webs: science for impact. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
10. Paine RT (1980) Food webs: linkage, interaction strength and community infrastructure. J Anim Ecol 49:667–685
11. Pimm SL, Lawton JH (1977) The number of trophic levels in ecological communities. Nature 268:329–331
12. Pimm SL, Lawton JH (1978) On feeding on more than one trophic level. Nature 275:542–544
13. Polis GA, Winemiller KO (Eds) (1996) Food Webs: Integration of patterns and dynamics. Chapman and Hall, New York
14. Yodzis P (1981) The stability of real ecosystems. Nature 289:674–676
15. Yodzis P (1988) The indeterminacy of ecological interactions as perceived by perturbation experiments. Ecology 72:1964–1972