Persistence increases with diversity and connectance in trophic metacommunities.

We are interested in understanding if metacommunity dynamics contribute to the persistence of complex spatial food webs subject to colonization-extinction dynamics. We study persistence as a measure of stability of communities within discrete patches, and ask how do species diversity, connectance, a...

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Main Authors: Dominique Gravel, Elsa Canard, Frédéric Guichard, Nicolas Mouquet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3103501?pdf=render