Characterizing Species Interactions to Understand Press Perturbations: What Is the Community Matrix?

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2016, Pages 409-432

  Novak, Mark ^a   Yeakel, Justin D ^b,c   Noble, Andrew E ^d   Doak, Daniel F ^e   Emmerson, Mark ^f   Estes, James A ^g   Jacob, Ute ^h   Tinker, M Timothy ⁱ   Wootton, J Timothy ^j  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Author keywords

Indirect effects; Interaction strengths; Multiple stressors; Network dynamics; Prediction; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84994520009     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-032416-010215     Document Type: Article

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