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Food web structure and habitat loss
Melián, Carlos J.
Bascompte, Jordi
Metacommunity
habitat destruction
omnivory
Apparent competition
intraguild predation
indirect interactions
In this paper we explore simple food web models to study how metacommunity structure affects species response to habitat loss. We find that patch abundances and extinction thresholds vary according to the kind of food web. Second, for intermediate species, a slight decrease in the exploration cost of the better competitor has a strong effect on the extinction threshold of the poorer competitor. When predicting extinction risk one should consider not only the amount of habitat destroyed, but also the structure of the food web in which species are embedded. Both direct and indirect interactions are critical for predicting the consequences of habitat destruction
Peer reviewed
2012-01-18T10:18:36Z
2012-01-18T10:18:36Z
2006-03
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
Ecology Letters, (2002) 5: 37—46
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/44406
10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00280.x
en
http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00280.x
open
Blackwell Publishing