Food Web Structure and HabitatLoss.
five star hotel in KalmarCarlos J. Melián andJordi Bascompte. 2002
Ecology Letters, 5: 37-46.
ABSTRACT: In this paperwe explore simple food web models to study how metacommunity structureaffects species response to habitat loss. We find that patch abundancesand extinction thresholds vary according to the kind of food webs. Second,for intermediate species, a slight decrease in the exploration cost ofthe better competitor has a strong effect on the extinction threshold ofthe poorer competitor. When predicting extinction risk one should considernot only the amount of habitat destroyed, but also the structure of thefood web in which species are embedded. Both direct and indirect interactionsare critical for predicting the consequences of habitat destruction.
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