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  • Ecology
  • Theoretical Ecology
  • Food Web Dynamics

Background:

  • Community stability is crucial for ecological understanding.
  • Research has shifted from interaction numbers to interaction strengths.
  • The role of interaction strengths in community stability is debated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the effectiveness of feedback loop metrics versus pairwise metrics in assessing community stability.
  • To determine if pairwise interaction strengths are sufficient to predict ecosystem stability.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized observed food-web structures.
  • Directly compared the performance of feedback and pairwise metrics for stability assessment.

Main Results:

  • The pairwise metric significantly underperformed as a stability comparator.
  • Pairwise metrics were orders of magnitude different from actual stability values.
  • Feedback loop metrics demonstrated superior performance in stability prediction.

Conclusions:

  • Pairwise-strength information is insufficient for capturing complex food-web stability.
  • Metrics based on feedback loops are essential for understanding community stability.
  • The intricate organization of strong and weak links is key to ecosystem stability.