Stability is woven by complex webs

Gary A. Polis ()
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Gary A. Polis: University of California

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6704, 744-745

Abstract: Most ecological systems are highly complex. But the issue of whether greater complexity means greater stability, or otherwise, has been long debated. New mathematical modelling now seems to bring theory closer into line with what one would intuitively imagine to be the case — that complexity tends to stabilize an ecosystem by, for instance, dampening population fluctuations.

Date: 1998
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