Food Webs and Diversity-Stability

Stability and diversity of ecosystems

Ives et al. 2007

Thresholds and the resilience of Caribbean coral reefs

Mumby et al. 2007

Using Lotka-Volterra models and random interactions (ie attack rates etc assigned random numbers): more diverse communities as less stable

May, 1976

-          The Stability of real ecosystems

-          40 published food webs

Yodzis, 1981

Construction and Analysis of a Large Caribbean Food Web

Goldwasser and Roughgarden, 1993

Asymmetric density dependence shapes species abundances in a tropical tree community

Comita et al. 2010

The diversity- stability debate

McCann, 2000

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment

Tilman et al. 2006

Killer whale predation on sea otters linking oceanic and nearshore ecosystems

Estes et al. 1998

Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15 years after wolf reintroduction

Ripple and Beschta, 2012

Bottom- up regulation of plant community structure in an Aridland Ecosystem

Baez et al. 2006