No complexity-stability relationship in empirical ecosystems

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Jacquet, Claire ^a,b,c   Moritz, Charlotte ^d,e   Morissette, Lyne ^f   Legagneux, Pierre ^a,b   Massol, François ^g   Archambault, Philippe ^d,h   Gravel, Dominique ^a,b,i  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec Université du Québec a' Rimouski   (Canada)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^e PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f M Expertise Marine   (Canada)

^g Univ Lille   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CORRELATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOOD WEB; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EXPECTATION; FOOD WEB; HUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDICTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 84984642660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12573     Document Type: Article

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