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Stability and complexity in model ecosystems.

Robert M. May
- Vol. 6, pp 1-235
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Food-web analysis through field measurement of per capita interaction strength

Robert T. Paine
- 02 Jan 1992 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an experimental study designed to estimate interaction strength in a species-rich herbivore guild, documenting on a per capita basis mainly weak or positive interactions, and a few strong interactions.
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Coexistence of the niche and neutral perspectives in community ecology.

Mathew A. Leibold, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2006 - 
TL;DR: It is argued that both evolutionary and ecological processes operate to promote the introduction and to sustain the persistence of ecologically similar and in many cases nearly equivalent species embedded in highly structured food webs.
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Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities

Nicolas Mouquet, +2 more
- 02 Nov 2010 - 
TL;DR: The potential role of the emerging synthetic disci- pline of evolutionary community ecology in improving the authors' understanding of how climate change will alter future distribution of biodiversity is examined.
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Global-stability problem for coupled systems of differential equations on networks

Michael Y. Li, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic approach that allows one to construct global Lyapunov functions for large-scale coupled systems from building blocks of individual vertex systems is presented. But the approach is applied to several classes of coupled systems in engineering, ecology and epidemiology, and is shown to improve existing results.
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Resources: A Graphical-Mechanistic Approach to Competition and Predation

David Tilman
- 01 Sep 1980 - 
TL;DR: A graphical, equilibrium theory of resource competition allows prediction of the outcome of interactions between several consumers for the various classes of resources.