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SUBMITTER: Barabas G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4535399 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barabás György G Allesina Stefano S
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20150801 109
The community matrix measures the direct effect of species on each other in an ecological community. It can be used to determine whether a system is stable (returns to equilibrium after small perturbations of the population abundances), reactive (perturbations are initially amplified before damping out), and to determine the response of any individual species to perturbations of environmental parameters. However, several studies show that small errors in estimating the entries of the community m ...[more]