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Relation between complexity and stability in food webs with adaptive behavior.

Satoshi Uchida1, Barbara Drossel

  • 1Institute of Solid-State Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Hochschulstrasse 6, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany. satoshi@fkp.tu-darmstadt.de

Journal of Theoretical Biology
|June 5, 2007
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Adaptive foraging significantly stabilizes food webs, creating a positive complexity-stability relationship. Predator avoidance offers minor stability gains, while functional responses and initial web structure have minimal impact on food web stability.

Area of Science:

  • Ecology
  • Theoretical Ecology
  • Food Web Dynamics

Background:

  • Food web stability is crucial for ecosystem resilience.
  • Understanding factors influencing food web structure and stability is a key ecological challenge.
  • Adaptive behaviors of species can significantly alter ecological dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how functional responses, web structure, and adaptive behaviors influence food web stability and structure.
  • To determine the impact of adaptive foraging and predator avoidance on ecological networks.
  • To analyze the role of constraint types on adaptive behaviors in food webs.

Main Methods:

  • Simulating population dynamics under various conditions.
  • Evaluating network robustness and species deletion stability.

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  • Analyzing link density and trophic level structure post-dynamics.

    • Main Results:

    • Adaptive foraging strongly stabilizes food webs, promoting a positive complexity-stability relationship.
    • Predator avoidance provides a slight increase in food web stability.
    • Functional responses and initial web structure have limited effects on stability.
    • Link density is highly sensitive to adaptive foraging and constraint types.
    • Trophic level structure is maintained with adaptive foraging.

    Conclusions:

    • Adaptive foraging is a dominant factor in enhancing food web stability and preserving trophic structure.
    • The complexity-stability relationship is positive when complexity implies greater prey availability.
    • Predator avoidance has a marginal stabilizing effect.
    • Ecological network stability is more influenced by species behavior than by initial web properties or functional responses.