The effects of stochastic population dynamics on food web structure
Populations and Evolution
2008-08-29 v1
Abstract
We develop a stochastic, individual-based model for food web simulation which in the large-population limit reduces to the well-studied Webworld model, which has been used to successfully construct model food webs with several realistic features. We demonstrate that an almost exact match is found between the population dynamics in fixed food webs, and that the demographic fluctuations have systematic effects when the new model is used to construct food webs due to the presence of species with small populations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.3947,
title = {The effects of stochastic population dynamics on food web structure},
author = {Craig R. Powell and Richard P. Boland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.3947},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
15 pages, 11 figures, 2 diagrams