This chapter describes research that seeks to characterize and model the structure of food
webs, complex networks of feeding (trophic) interactions among diverse species in …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1546–1559 Abstract Species coexistence within ecosystems and
the stability of patterns of temporal changes in population sizes are central topics in …

Classic local stability theory predicts that complex ecological networks are unstable and are
unlikely to persist despite empiricists' abundant documentation of such complexity in nature …

This book is based on proceedings from a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its
contributing chapter authors treat the ecology of predator-prey interactions and food web …

The biologist JBS Haldane, when asked what we can learn about the Creator by examining
the world, is said to have replied “an inordinate fondness for beetles”[705]. Today's …

Several decades of dynamical analyses of food-web networks [1-6] have led to important
insights into the effects of complexity, omnivory and interaction strength on food-web stability …

Owing to interdependences among species in ecological communities, the loss of one
species can trigger a cascade of secondary extinctions with potentially dramatic effects on …

Creative approaches at the interface of ecology, statistics, mathematics, informatics, and
computational science are essential for improving our understanding of complex ecological …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 891–899 Abstract Food web structure plays an important role
when determining robustness to cascading secondary extinctions. However, existing food …

Predicting the consequences of species loss requires extending our traditional
understanding of simpler dynamic systems of few interacting species to the more complex …