| Interactive effects of body-size structure and adaptive foraging on food-web stability. | |
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PMID: 22276597 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Ecology Letters (2012) ABSTRACT: Body-size structure of food webs and adaptive foraging of consumers are two of the dominant concepts of our understanding how natural ecosystems maintain their stability and diversity. The interplay of these two processes, however, is a critically important yet unresolved issue. To fill this gap in our knowledge of ecosystem stability, we investigate dynamic random and niche model food webs to evaluate the proportion of persistent species. We show that stronger body-size structures and faster adaptation stabilise these food webs. Body-size structures yield stabilising configurations of interaction strength distributions across food webs, and adaptive foraging emphasises links to resources closer to the base. Moreover, both mechanisms combined have a cumulative effect. Most importantly, unstructured random webs evolve via adaptive foraging into stable size-structured food webs. This offers a mechanistic explanation of how size structure adaptively emerges in complex food webs, thus building a novel bridge between these two important stabilising mechanisms. |
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Lotta Heckmann; Barbara Drossel; Ulrich Brose; Christian Guill |
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Type: LETTER Date: 2012-1-26 |
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Title: Ecology letters Volume: - ISSN: 1461-0248 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-1-26 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101121949 Medline TA: Ecol Lett Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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© 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS. |
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Institut fur Festkörperphysik, TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstraße 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany Systemic Conservation Biology, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Berliner Str. 28, 37073 Göttingen, Germany. |
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