Small world patterns in food webs

Details Small world patterns in food webs Small world patterns in food webs

2000-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0011195v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

6 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

The analysis of some species-rich, well-defined food webs shows that they display the so called Small World behavior shared by a number of disparate complex systems. The three systems analysed (Ythan estuary web, Silwood web and the Little Rock lake web) have different levels of taxonomic resolution, but all of them involve high clustering and short path lengths between species. Additionally, the distribution of connections with fat-tail power law behavior. These features suggest that communities might be self-organized in such a way that high homeostasis to perturbations (with short transient times to recovery) would be at work. The consequences for ecological theory are outlined.

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