Stability in complex food webs
Understanding how food web structure determine the temporal stability of ecological communities
How biodiversity determines temporal stability is a central question in ecology. This question has been adressed quite a lot in grasslands and other species assemblages. However, the effects of food-web have been overlooked.
Trophic interactions, by their effects of biomass fluxes, can have tremendous effects on community stability. For example, generalist predators can stabilise their preys.