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Increasing complexity can increase stability in a self-regulating ecosystem
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posted on 2023-06-08, 00:30 authored by James Dyke, Jamie McDonald-Gibson, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Inman HarveyInman HarveyA long standing debate within ecology is to what extent ecosystem complexity and stability are related. Landmark theoretical studies claimed that the more complex an ecosystem, the more unstable it is likely to be. Stability in an ecosystems context can be assessed in different ways. In this paper we measure stability in terms of a model ecosystems ability to regulate environmental conditions. We show how increasing biodiversity in this model can result in the regulation of the environment over a wider range of external perturbations. This is achieved via changes to the ecosystems resistance and resilience. This result crucially depends on the feedback that the organisms have on their environment.
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Springer-VerlagPages
133.0Presentation Type
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Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life, 2007Event location
LisbonEvent type
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978-3-540-74912-7Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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