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Probabilistic patterns of interaction: the effects of link-strength variability on food web structure
Patterns of species interactions affect the dynamics of food webs. An important component of species interactions that is rarely …
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Probabilistic patterns of interaction: the effects of link-strength variability on food web structure
Generalized modeling of ecological population dynamics
Over the past 7 years, several authors have used the approach of generalized modeling to study the dynamics of food chains and food …
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Generalized modeling of ecological population dynamics
Predicting community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity
How best to predict the effects of perturbations to ecological communities has been a long‐standing goal for both applied and basic …
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Predicting community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity
The Effect of Travel Loss on Evolutionarily Stable Distributions of Populations in Space
A key assumption of the ideal free distribution (IFD) is that there are no costs in moving between habitat patches. However, because …
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Using experimental indices to quantify the strength of species interactions

Few methods for demonstrating the effects of species interactions rival that of the manipulative experiment (Kareiva and Levin 2002). …
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Using experimental indices to quantify the strength of species interactions
Estimating nonlinear interaction strengths: an observation-based method for species-rich food webs
Efforts to estimate the strength of species interactions in species‐rich, reticulate food webs have been hampered by the multitude of …
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Estimating nonlinear interaction strengths: an observation-based method for species-rich food webs
Trophic omnivory and the structure, strength, and nonlinear nature of species interactions across a productivity gradient

Two elements of food webs add significantly to their complexity: The presence of trophic omnivores and the nonlinear nature of …
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