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Far-ranging generalist top predators enhance the stability of meta-foodwebs
Andreas Brechtel1, Thilo Gross2, Barbara Drossel3
1Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institute for condensed matter physics, Hochschulstr. 6, Darmstadt, 64289, Germany. brechtel@fkp.tu-darmstadt.de.
Abstract:
Identifying stabilizing factors in foodwebs is a long standing challenge with wide implications for community ecology and conservation. Here, we investigate the stability of spatially resolved meta-foodwebs with far-ranging super-predators for whom the whole meta-foodwebs appears to be a single habitat. By using a combination of generalized modeling with a master stability function approach, we are able to efficiently explore the asymptotic stability of large classes of realistic many-patch meta-foodwebs. We show that meta-foodwebs with far-ranging top predators are more stable than those with localized top predators. Moreover, adding far-ranging generalist top predators to a system can have a net stabilizing effect. These results highlight the importance of top predator conservation.
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