How Structured Is the Entangled Bank? The Surprisingly Simple Organization of Multiplex Ecological Networks Leads to Increased Persistence and Resilience.
Species are linked to each other by a myriad of positive and negative interactions. This complex spectrum of interactions constitutes a network of links that mediates ecological communities' response to perturbations, such as exploitation and climate change. In the last decades, there have been...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-08-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4972357?pdf=render |