Aggregate community properties and the strength of species’ interactions

AUTOR(ES)

Hughes, Jennifer B.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Although humanity depends on the continued, aggregate functioning of natural ecosystems, few studies have explored the impact of community structure on the stability of aggregate community properties. Here we derive the stability of the aggregate property of community biomass as a function of species’ competition coefficients for a two-species model. The model predicts that the stability of community biomass is relatively independent of the magnitude of the interaction strengths. Instead, the degree of asymmetry of the interactions appears to be key to community stability.

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