Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity.

Paine, R. T. (1966). Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity. The American Naturalist, 100(910), 65-75.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1966

Volume

100

Issue

910

Pages

65-75

DOI

10.1086/282400

DOI registrant

University of Chicago Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/282400

Cited from

military_strategic_studies, systems_cybernetics

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Center Of Gravity
  • Ecology and public health: keystone species (sea otters, wolves) whose removal triggers trophic cascades far beyond their biomass; superspreader nodes and bridge populations as transmission-network centers of gravity.

    This sourceIntroduces the keystone species concept: removal of a single species (a predatory sea star, Pisaster) triggers a trophic cascade reorganizing the community far beyond its biomass.

• Excitation-Inhibition Balance
  • Ecology: predators (inhibitory on prey) and resource supply (excitatory on prey) act concurrently, and loss of top predators produces trophic cascades.

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