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| Title |
How to predict community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity
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| Published in |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1098/rspb.2013.2355 |
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| Authors |
Helge Aufderheide, Lars Rudolf, Thilo Gross, Kevin D. Lafferty |
| Abstract |
Recent attempts to predict the response of large food webs to perturbations have revealed that in larger systems increasingly precise information on the elements of the system is required. Thus, the effort needed for good predictions grows quickly with the system's complexity. Here, we show that not all elements need to be measured equally well, suggesting that a more efficient allocation of effort is possible. We develop an iterative technique for determining an efficient measurement strategy. In model food webs, we find that it is most important to precisely measure the mortality and predation rates of long-lived, generalist, top predators. Prioritizing the study of such species will make it easier to understand the response of complex food webs to perturbations. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 33% |
| Norway | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 1 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 111 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 5% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 97 | 87% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 36 | 32% |
| Researcher | 24 | 22% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 7% |
| Professor | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 10% |
| Unknown | 12 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 52 | 47% |
| Environmental Science | 23 | 21% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 5 | 5% |
| Engineering | 3 | 3% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 12 | 11% |
| Unknown | 14 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 August 2022.
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