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SUBMITTER: Jacquet C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4999500 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jacquet Claire C Moritz Charlotte C Morissette Lyne L Legagneux Pierre P Massol François F Archambault Philippe P Gravel Dominique D
Nature communications 20160824
Understanding the mechanisms responsible for stability and persistence of ecosystems is one of the greatest challenges in ecology. Robert May showed that, contrary to intuition, complex randomly built ecosystems are less likely to be stable than simpler ones. Few attempts have been tried to test May's prediction empirically, and we still ignore what is the actual complexity-stability relationship in natural ecosystems. Here we perform a stability analysis of 116 quantitative food webs sampled wo ...[more]