Stability and Complexity of Ecosystems
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--- I read Robert May's book in grad school and it made a tremendous impression on me; I like to read more about this area, from time to time...
- See also:
- Ecology
- Random Matrix Theory
- Recommended, big picture:
- Robert M. May, Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems [Comments]
- To read:
- Wenping Cui, Robert Marsland III, Pankaj Mehta, "Diverse communities behave like typical random ecosystems", Physical Review E 104 (2021): 034416, arxiv:1904.02610
- Christian W. Eurich, Andreas Thiel and Lorenz Fahse, "Distributed Delays Stabilize Ecological Feedback Systems", Physical Review Letters 94 (2005): 158104
- Alan Hastings, "Transients: the key to long-term ecological understanding?", Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19 (2004): 39--45
- C. S. Hollings, "Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems", Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 4 (1973): 1--23
- Claire Jacquet, Charlotte Moritz, Lyne Morissette, Pierre Legagneux, François Massol, Phillippe Archambault, Dominique Gravel, "No complexity-stability relationship in natural communities", arxiv:1307.5364
- Alex James, Michael J. Plank, Axel G. Rossberg, Jonathan Beecham, Mark Emmerson, Jonathan W. Pitchford, "Constructing Random Matrices to Represent Real Ecosystems", American Naturalist 185 (2015): 680--692 [Comments, before reading anything more than the abstract]
- James Justus, "Ecological and Lyapunov Stability", phil-sci/2987 ["Although Lyapunov stability adequately characterizes perturbation responses of systems typically studied in physics, it does not for ecological systems"]
- Laurence D. Mueller and Amitabh Joshi, Stability in Model Populations
- Anje-Margriet Neutel, Johan A. P. Heesterbeek, Johan van de Koppel, Guido Hoenderboom, An Vos, Coen Kaldeway, Frank Berendse and Peter C. de Ruiter, "Reconciling complexity with stability in naturally assembling food webs", Nature 449 (2007): 599--602
- Susanne Pettersson, Van M. Savage, and Martin Nilsson Jacobi, "Stability of ecosystems enhanced by species-interaction constraints", Physical Review E 102 (2020): 062405
- Oswald J. Schmitz, Resolving Ecosystem Complexity [JSTOR]
- Sitabhra Sinha and Sudeshna Sinha, "Evidence of universality for the May-Wigner stability theorem for random networks with local dynamics", nlin.AO/0402002
- David Tilman, Peter B. Reich and Johannes M. H. Knops, "Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment", Nature 441 (2006): 629--632
