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Effects of predator novelty on intraguild predation communities with adaptive prey defense
Understanding coexistence within community modules such as intraguild predation (IGP), where an omnivore both preys on and competes …
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Effects of predator novelty on intraguild predation communities with adaptive prey defense
PressPurt - Network sensitivity to press perturbations under interaction uncertainty
While the use of networks to understand how complex systems respond to perturbations is pervasive across scientific disciplines, the …
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PressPurt - Network sensitivity to press perturbations under interaction uncertainty
Collective behaviour can stabilize ecosystems
Collective behaviour is common in bacteria, plants, and animals, and thus across ecosystems, from biofilms to cities. With collective …
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Collective behaviour can stabilize ecosystems
The predictability of qualitative food web dynamics in response to extinction and invasion
Food webs are extraordinarily complex, containing myriad direct interactions and indirect effects. Determining how this network of …
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Rapid and direct recoveries of predators and prey through synchronized ecosystem management
One of the twenty-first century’s greatest environmental challenges is to recover and restore species, habitats and ecosystems. The …
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Characterizing species interactions to understand press perturbations: What is the community matrix?
The community matrix is among ecology’s most important mathematical abstractions, formally encapsulating the interconnected …
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Characterizing species interactions to understand press perturbations: What is the community matrix?
Ecosystem context and historical contingency in apex predator recoveries
Habitat loss, overexploitation, and numerous other stressors have caused global declines in apex predators. This “trophic downgrading” …
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Effects of predator introductions on population and community dynamics

There is increasing awareness that human activities are altering the ways that natural systems operate and that local shifts in species …
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Selection on stability across ecological scales
Much of the focus in evolutionary biology has been on the adaptive differentiation among organisms. It is equally important to …
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Selection on stability across ecological scales
Trophic omnivory across a productivity gradient: intraguild predation theory and the structure and strength of species interactions
Intraguild predation theory centres on two predictions: (i) for an omnivore and an intermediate predator (IG-prey) to coexist on shared …
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Trophic omnivory across a productivity gradient: intraguild predation theory and the structure and strength of species interactions