Why Nestedness in Mutualistic Networks?

Details Why Nestedness in Mutualistic Networks? Why Nestedness in Mutualistic Networks?

2006-09-05

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0609005v2

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

Journal of Theoretical Biology (Accepted, 2007)

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.07.030

We investigate the relationship between the nested organization of mutualistic systems and their robustness against the extinction of species. We establish that a nested pattern of contacts is the best possible one as far as robustness is concerned, but only when the least linked species have the greater probability of becoming extinct. We introduce a coefficient that provides a quantitative measure of the robustness of a mutualistic system.

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