Many weak interactions and few strong; food-web feasibility depends on the combination of the strength of species’ interactions and their correct arrangement

Selection against instability: stable subgraphs are most frequent in empirical food webs

(2015) Jonathan J. Borrelli   OIKOS

Selection on stability across ecological scales

(2015) Jonathan J. Borrelli et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

On the dimensionality of ecological stability

(2013) Ian Donohue et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

(2013) Claire de Mazancourt et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Possible top-down control of solitary bee populations by ambush predators

(2012) Miguel A. Rodríguez-Gironés   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

(2012) Stefano Allesina et al.   NATURE

Disentangling nestedness from models of ecological complexity

(2012) Alex James et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Diversity of Interaction Types and Ecological Community Stability

(2012) A. Mougi et al.   SCIENCE

Reconciling the Omnivory-Stability Debate

(2011) Gabriel Gellner et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Persistence Increases with Diversity and Connectance in Trophic Metacommunities

(2011) Dominique Gravel et al.   PLoS One

Compartmentalization increases food-web persistence

(2011) Daniel B. Stouffer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Integrating food web diversity, structure and stability

(2011) Neil Rooney et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Improving nature conservancy strategies by ecological network theory

(2010) Ulrich Brose   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant diversity and the stability of foodwebs

(2010) Nick M. Haddad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interaction strength, food web topology and the relative importance of species in food webs

(2010) Eoin J. O’Gorman et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Diet specialisation and foraging efficiency under fluctuating vole abundance: a comparison between generalist and specialist avian predators

(2010) Julien Terraube et al.   OIKOS

Stability of Ecological Communities and the Architecture of Mutualistic and Trophic Networks

(2010) E. Thebault et al.   SCIENCE

Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century

(2010) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

Conservation of species interaction networks

(2009) Jason M. Tylianakis et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Declining lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) energy density: are there too many salmonid predators in the Great Lakes?

(2009) Gordon Paterson et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Press perturbations and indirect effects in real food webs

(2009) JoséM. Montoya et al.   ECOLOGY

Understanding food-web persistence from local to global scales

(2009) Daniel B. Stouffer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Success and its limits among structural models of complex food webs

(2008) Richard J. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Effects of network and dynamical model structure on species persistence in large model food webs

(2008) Richard J. Williams   Theoretical Ecology