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SUBMITTER: Allhoff KT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4455292 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Allhoff K T KT Ritterskamp D D Rall B C BC Drossel B B Guill C C
Scientific reports 20150604
The networks of predator-prey interactions in ecological systems are remarkably complex, but nevertheless surprisingly stable in terms of long term persistence of the system as a whole. In order to understand the mechanism driving the complexity and stability of such food webs, we developed an eco-evolutionary model in which new species emerge as modifications of existing ones and dynamic ecological interactions determine which species are viable. The food-web structure thereby emerges from the ...[more]