Robustness Trade-Offs in Model Food Webs: Invasion Probability Decreases While Invasion Consequences Increase With Connectance

Advances in Ecological Research

Volumn 56, Issue , 2017, Pages 263-291

  Romanuk, T N ^a,b   Zhou, Y ^b,c   Valdovinos, F S ^d   Martinez, N D ^b,d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity loss; Complexity; Connectance; Dynamic; Food web; Invasive species; Network; Nonlinear; Trophic

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009212128     PISSN: 00652504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2016.11.001     Document Type: Chapter

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