Abstract:Community complexity-stability relationships have been at the centre of ecological thinking for many decades. MacArthur (1955) proposed a measure of stability that reflected the diversity in the number of pathways energy can flow up through a food web but how this index correlates with more formal ideas of dynamical stability remains unexplored. Here, we examine the relationship between MacArthurs proposed index and measures of local and global stability in Lotka-Volterra food web models. Our results provide s… Show more
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