Emergence of structural and dynamical properties of ecological mutualistic networks

Samir Suweis (), Filippo Simini, Jayanth R. Banavar and Amos Maritan ()
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Samir Suweis: INFN, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
Filippo Simini: Biology and Computer Science, Northeastern University
Jayanth R. Banavar: University of Maryland, College Park
Amos Maritan: INFN, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy

Nature, 2013, vol. 500, issue 7463, 449-452

Abstract: Cooperation among species tends to result in mutualistic networks with a nested structure, which is thought to increase biodiversity and persistence but may be less stable than unstructured networks: here nested networks are shown to result from a mechanism that maximizes species abundances in mutualistic communities, and the abundance of nested species is found to be directly linked to the resilience of the community.

Date: 2013
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