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| Title |
Stage structure alters how complexity affects stability of ecological networks
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Ecology Letters, November 2010
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| DOI | 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01558.x |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
V. H. W. Rudolf, Kevin D. Lafferty |
| Abstract |
Resolving how complexity affects stability of natural communities is of key importance for predicting the consequences of biodiversity loss. Central to previous stability analysis has been the assumption that the resources of a consumer are substitutable. However, during their development, most species change diets; for instance, adults often use different resources than larvae or juveniles. Here, we show that such ontogenetic niche shifts are common in real ecological networks and that consideration of these shifts can alter which species are predicted to be at risk of extinction. Furthermore, niche shifts reduce and can even reverse the otherwise stabilizing effect of complexity. This pattern arises because species with several specialized life stages appear to be generalists at the species level but act as sequential specialists that are hypersensitive to resource loss. These results suggest that natural communities are more vulnerable to biodiversity loss than indicated by previous analyses. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 340 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 3% |
| Brazil | 7 | 2% |
| Canada | 6 | 2% |
| France | 4 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| Japan | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 2 | <1% |
| Mexico | 2 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 1% |
| Unknown | 298 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 97 | 29% |
| Researcher | 76 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 49 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 22 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 6% |
| Other | 51 | 15% |
| Unknown | 26 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 200 | 59% |
| Environmental Science | 70 | 21% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 7 | 2% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | <1% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | <1% |
| Other | 18 | 5% |
| Unknown | 39 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 September 2020.
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#16,048,009
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Outputs from Ecology Letters
#2,781
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#148,706
of 190,446 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ecology Letters
#20
of 29 outputs
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