Robustness of Foodwebs to Species Loss


Dunne, J.A., and R.J. Williams.  2009.
Cascading extinctions and community collapse in model food webs.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364:1711-1723.

Coll, M., H.K. Lotze, and T.N. Romanuk. 2008.
Structural degradation in Mediterranean Sea food webs: testing ecological hypotheses using stochastic and mass-balance modelling.
Ecosystems 11:939-960.
doi:10.1007/s10021-008-9171-y

Srinivasan, U.T., J.A. Dunne, J. Harte, and N.D. Martinez.  2007.
Response of complex food webs to realistic extinction sequences.
Ecology 88:671-682.

Memmott, J., D. Alonso, E.L. Berlow, A. Dobson, J.A. Dunne, R. Sole, and J. Wietz.  2006.
Biodiversity loss and ecological network structure.
Pages 325-347 in Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs. M. Pascual and J.A. Dunne, eds. Oxford University Press.

Dell, A.I., G.D. Kokkoris, C. Banasek-Richter, L.-F. Bersier, J.A. Dunne, M. Kondoh, T.N. Romanuk, and N.D. Martinez.  2005.
How do complex food webs persist in nature?
Pages 425-436 in Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change. P.C. de Ruiter, V. Wolters, and J.C. Moore, eds.  Academic Press.

Harper-Smith, S., E.L. Berlow, R.A. Knapp, R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez.  2005.
Communicating ecology through food webs: visualizing and quantifying the effects of stocking alpine lakes with trout.
Pages 407-423 in Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change. P.C. de Ruiter, V. Wolters, and J.C. Moore, eds.  Academic Press.

Dunne, J.A., R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez. 2004.
Network structure and robustness of marine food webs.
Marine Ecology Progress Series 273:291-302.

Dunne, J.A., R.J. Williams, and N.D. Martinez. 2002
Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance.
Ecology Letters 5:558-567.
(previously, Santa Fe Institue Working Paper 02-03-013)


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