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Structural dynamics and robustness of food webs.

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Food web structure plays an important role when determining robustness to cascading secondary extinctions. However, existing food web models do not take into account likely changes in trophic interactions ('rewiring') following species loss. We investigated structural dynamics in 12 empirically documented food webs by simulating primary species loss using three realistic removal criteria, and measured robustness in terms of subsequent secondary extinctions. In our model, novel trophic interac...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Role:
Author
Journal:
Ecology letters
Volume:
13
Issue:
7
Pages:
891-899
Publication date:
2010-07-01
DOI:
EISSN:
1461-0248
ISSN:
1461-023X
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
pubs:154332
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uuid:c730548f-6f0e-4f88-b9a1-893b180cec84
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pubs:154332
Source identifiers:
154332
Deposit date:
2012-12-19

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