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.

Effect of species richness and food web structure on temporal stability

Theoretical models