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Nature 395, 794-798 (22 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/27427;
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Weak trophic interactions and the balance of nature
Ecological models show that complexity usually destabilizes food webs,, predicting that food webs should not amass the large numbers of interacting species that are in fact found in nature. Here, using nonlinear models, we study the influence of interaction strength (likelihood of consumption of one species by another) on food-web dynamics away from equilibrium.
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