The type of interaction between species might play a fundamental part in the stability of ecological communities
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 04:07
in Mathematics & Economics
Elisa Thébault and Colin Fontaine, with a research carried out at Imperial College London, Wageninen University and the Museum National d`Histoire Naturelle, have shown that the network architectures which favor the stability of ecological communities differ between trophic webs (`who eats who`) and mutualistic webs (`who pollinates who`).